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

• Autore: Dikötter Frank
• Pubblicazione: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (140 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.04
• Soggetto geografico: China History Republic, 1912-1949
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The age of openness
• ISBN: 988-220-659-X; 1-283-01679-6; 9786613016799; 988-220-564-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781298603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Understanding China.