Rana Mitter, Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the Unversity of Oxford
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.
By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present.
Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.
Readership: The general reader interested in China, students and lecturers of twentieth-century world history, Chinese history, comparative history, and politics.
發表於2024-11-29
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This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分一直不明白為什麼會把五四運動和“德先生”與“賽先生”聯係起來。《苦澀的革命》(A Bitter Revolution)裏麵是這樣描述90年前那天的情形的:大約3000個學生在天安門會閤,聆聽瞭抗議巴黎和會的演說。下午兩點學生們聽完瞭演說,舉著標語嚮使館區行進。當氣氛變得更熱...
圖書標籤: 五四運動 政治學 曆史 中國 中國 海外中國研究 英文原版 美國
綜述性研究,攤子鋪得大,亮點有,但大多點到為止。
評分綜述性研究,攤子鋪得大,亮點有,但大多點到為止。
評分綜述性研究,攤子鋪得大,亮點有,但大多點到為止。
評分綜述性研究,攤子鋪得大,亮點有,但大多點到為止。
評分閱於2018年11月29日
A Bitter Revolution 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載