The Oxford history of modern China

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The Oxford History Of Modern China
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Preface to the 2018 republication of the Illustrated edition
Contents
List of Maps
A guide to pronouncing Romanized chinese (wade-giles and pinyin)
Introduction
1: From Late Ming to High Qing, 1550–1792
	Late Ming social and cultural life
	The three emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong
	Women and gender
	Art and material culture at the Qing court
	The Qing and the Nanyang
	Christianity in Ming and Qing China
	Jesuits and technology in late imperial China
2: New Domestic and Global Challenges, 1792-1860
3: Restoration and Reform, 1860–1900
4: Felling a Dynasty, Founding a Republic
5: The Rise of Nationalism and Revolutionary Parties,
	Warlords
	Consequences of warlordism
	Northern Expedition
	Chiang and Wang
	Shanghai massacre
	Nanjing decade
	Mao Zedong
	The Jiangxi Soviet
	The Long March
	Yan’an spirit
6: The War Years,
	The path to war
	The first phase
	Stalemate
	The global war
	The Civil War
7: The Early Years of the People’s Republic, 1950-1964
8: The Cultural Revolution Era, 1964-1976
	Prelude to the Cultural Revolution, 1964–1966
	Radical Cultural Revolution, 1966–1968
	Late Maoism, 1968–1976
	Impacts of the Cultural Revolution
	China’s place in the world
	The fall of Maoism
9: Reform and Rebuilding, 1976–1988
	Politics: succession, reform, and stalemate
	Reform as experimentation
	Reactions to reform
	Stalemate
	Society: the costs of “coming alive”
	Business and commerce
	Intellectuals and popular culture
	Rural communities
	Legacies of the 19805s
10: Tiananmen and its Aftermath, 1989–1999
	The 1989 protests
	The domestic legacies of 1989
	Protest and control since 1989
	China and the world
11: China Rising 2000-2010
	Economy and society
	Politics and foreign affairs
	Society and culture
	Conclusion
12: The People’s Leader
	China’s Illiberal Turn
	Reforms under Xi Jinping
	Those Who have Been Sacrificed
	Hong Kong: A Lost Beacon
	COVID-19 and the Threat of Chaos
	Wolf Warriors: China’s Advance on the World Stage
	China: A Tech Competitor
	Conclusion: A Dominant China
The Presence of the Past–A Coda
	History suppressed?
	Wu Xiangdong
	History recreated
	History recovered
Timeline of modern Chinese political History
Further Reading
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
		Revolutionaries And Reformers
		Warlords
		May Fourth
	Chapter 6
		Biographies
		The nationalists: political, social, And military history of wartime
		The Communists And Their Revolution
		Collaboration With The Japanese
		The Civil War
	Chapter 7
		Mao Zedong
		Politics
		Economics
		the great leap forward and the famine
		Rural Society
		Urban Society
		Culture And Education
	Chapter 8
		Websites
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
		Films And Websites
	Chapter 11
		Economy
		Politics
		Foreign Affairs
		Society And Culture
	Chapter 12
		CODA
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