Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history; which tend to be either encyclopedic or too pedantic; Revolution and Its Past is comprehensive but concise; focused on the most recent scholarship; and written in a style that engages students from beginning to end. The Third Edition uses the theme of identities--of the nation itself and of the Chinese people--to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the early twenty-first century. In so doing; it explores the range of identities that China has chosen over time and those that outsiders have attributed to China and its people; showing how; as China rapidly modernizes; the issue of Chinese identity in the modern world looms large.
#624643 in Books Pearson 2012-01-06Ingredients: Example IngredientsOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.90 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.19 #File Name: 0205180930496 pages
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