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200 14$aThe age of openness$b[electronic resource] $eChina before Mao /$fFrank Diko?tter
210   $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (140 p.)
225 1 $aUnderstanding China
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a962-209-920-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- Open governance  -- Open borders  -- Open minds  -- Open markets.
330   $aThe 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
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