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ISBN 10: 1134219768
ISBN 13: 9781134219766
Author: Peter Zarrow
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation’s story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China’s defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, democratize the political system, and build a fairer and more unified society. Peter Zarrow weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in-depth themes central to China’s transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies, and empirical historicism. Essential reading for both students and instructors alike, it draws a picture of the personalities, ideas and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades.
China in War and Revolution 1895–1949 1st Table of contents:
Part I The road to revolution, 1895–1919
A prologue: The Boxers
The state of China at the dawn of the twentieth century
1 The rise of Confucian radicalism
Calls for institutional reform
Confucian radicalism in political context
Confucian radicalism in cultural context
Ideological revolution
2 1911: History and historiography
The 1911 Revolution as prologue
The 1911 Revolution as phase
Political revolution as conservative social change
Structural breakdown during the Qing
Revolutionary atmosphere
3 Ideas and ideals in the fall of the Qing
Empire and nation
Nationalism and state-building: Liang Qichao
Han nationalism: race and revolution
4 From the military dictator to the warlords
The politics of the early Republic
Foreign affairs and monarchism
Militarism and the warlord era (1916–27)
The causes and effects of militarism
5 Social conditions in the countryside
The basic patterns of rural life
The disintegration of rural society
Peasants: Resistance, rebellion, and revolution
Definitions
6 Urban social change
Urban development: Civil society and the bourgeoisie
New social forces: Workers
New social forces: Students, women
7 Intellectuals, the Republic, and a new culture
Constitutionalism, federalism, reform
The New Culture movement
The fate of Confucianism in modern China
Anarchism and socialism in the early Republic
Part II Nationalism and revolution, 1919–37
8 Politics and culture in the May Fourth movement
The May Fourth movement, 1919–21
Imperialism and liberalism
The political significance of the May Fourth movement
Cultural revolution and social change
The modern nation and limits of change
9 National identity, Marxism, and social justice
“Problems versus isms” and liberalism versus Marxism-Leninism
“Science versus metaphysics” and modern Chinese conservatism
Anarchists versus communists: Defining Marxism
Common themes in May Fourth discourse
10 The rise of political parties
Guangzhou and the early Guomindang
The Chinese Communist Party and the First United Front
The “May Thirtieth” movement (1925)
11 Ideology and power in the National Revolution
Ideology and the Guomindang
Social radicalism in the 1920s: The peasantry
Social radicalism in the 1920s: Women
12 The Northern Expedition and the rise of Chiang Kai-shek
The Northern Expedition
The breakdown of the first United Front
The National Revolution and consolidation of power
13 The Nanjing decade, 1928–37 The Guomindang era
State-building in the Nanjing decade
Blue Shirts and new life: Guomindang fascism?
Economy, state, and society
Legitimacy, nationalism, and dissent
14 Peasants and Communists
The survival of the CCP
The Jiangxi Soviet
The lessons of the Futian Incident and guerrilla war
Intellectuals and their discovery of the masses
Part III War and revolution, 1937–49
15 The War of Resistance, 1937–45
The Japanese invasion
Nationalists at war
Chongqing and Nanjing at war
16 Mao, Maoism, and the Communist Party
Maoism to 1949
Rectification
The mass line
17 Revolution and civil war
Political protest and civil war
Communists and peasants, 1937–46
Peasants and politics: Radicalization
Epilog
Notes
Index
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