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10%OFFPaperback - Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution - 9780804733373 - V9780804733373
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Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution

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Description for Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution Paperback. This work analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China woke up in the last century. Num Pages: 480 pages, 12 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 27. Weight in Grams: 645.

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China “woke up” in this century.

The book follows the legend of China’s awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its ... Read more

The book focuses on the Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of Mao’s role in the Nationalist Propaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant movement activist.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804733373
SKU
V9780804733373
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Ref
99-50

About Paperback
John Fitzgerald is Professor of Asian Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.

Reviews for Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution
"Based on broad, accurate scholarship, this distinguished work provides a searching synthesis of a number of important themes in early twentieth-century Chinese history."—Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University "A vivid account of how Chinese revolutionaries and intellectuals awakened China during the Republican Revolution. . . . Initially, Fitzgerald offers an interesting and detailed analysis of the process of awakening China . ... Read more

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