Modernization and revolution in China : from the opium wars to world power / June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort
Imprint
New York : M.E.Sharpe, 2004
Edition
3rd ed.
Descript
xiii, 353 p. : map ; 24 cm
CONTENT
The Middle Kingdom -- Patterns of traditional Chinese life -- Imperial breakdown and western invasion -- The new Chinese republic -- Nationalists and communists -- China at war -- Creating the new order: 1949-1957 -- The Great Leap and the bad fall -- The Cultural Revolution -- A second revolution: the reforms of Deng Xiaoping -- The era of Jiang Zemin -- The "fourth generation."