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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781298603321

Autore

Dikötter Frank

Titolo

The age of openness [[electronic resource] ] : China before Mao / / Frank Dikötter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, 2008

ISBN

988-220-659-X

1-283-01679-6

9786613016799

988-220-564-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

Understanding China

Disciplina

951.04

Soggetti

China History Republic, 1912-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Open governance  -- Open borders  -- Open minds  -- Open markets.

Sommario/riassunto

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness.Frank Dikotter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and out of the count