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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793607303321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of revolutionary China / / edited by Alan Baumler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , [2019]

ISBN

1-317-23588-6

1-315-62672-1

1-317-23589-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages)

Disciplina

951.05

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / China

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies

China History 1949-1976

China History Republic, 1912-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 Japanese goals, Chinese realities at the grassroots: the Japanese Occupation in northern Zhejiang, 1937-42; 2 The rise of the Chinese Communist military-fiscal party-state in Shandong Province, 1937-45; 3 New China Daily: social change and the class project in wartime Nationalist China; 4 Liberation: a view from the Southwest; 5 The search for a Socialist everyday: the urban communes; 6 Changes in the rural land system and power structure in the countryside

7 "There is no crisis and it is going to go away soon, anyhow"-propaganda, denialism and revisionism in debating the Great Leap Forward famine8 Gospel light or imperialist poison? Controversies of the Christian community in China, 1922-55; 9 A (wo)men's revolution? Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China's long twentieth century; 10 The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925-49); 11 The New Life Movement and national sacrifice; 12 Learning the new culture: rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s; 13 Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945-60

14 Chinese professions, the nation and revolution, 1895-196515 Roles



of the beautiful nation in the making of a revolutionary Middle Kingdom; 16 Closest model, rival and fateful enemy: China's political economy, law and Japan; 17 Ambiguous paradigms: the Russian model and the Chinese Revolution; 18 All rivers flow into the sea: the making of China's most cosmopolitan city; 19 Public space and public life: transformation of urban China, 1900-2000; 20 The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895-1949: progress, hygiene and national concern

Sommario/riassunto

"The Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China covers the evolution of Chinese society from the roots of the Republic of China in the early 1900s until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The essays in this volume explain aspects of the process of revolution and how people adapted to the demands of the revolutionary situation. Exploring changes in political leadership, as well as transformation in culture, it compares the differences in experiences in urban and rural areas and contrasts rapid changes, such as the war with Japan and Communist 'liberation' with evolutionary developments, such as the gradual redefinition of public space. Taking a comprehensive approach, the themes covered include: - War, occupation and liberation - Religion and gender - Education, cities and travel. This is an essential resource for students and scholars of Modern China, Republican China, Revolutionary China and Chinese Politics."