Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents
- ISBN-10
- 0195147456
- ISBN-13
- 9780195147452
- Series
- Twentieth Century China
- Category
- History / Asia / China
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- R. Keith Schoppa
Description
The twentieth century was a time of great change in China-for its government, economy, culture, and everyday life. It was a period of revolutions, and Twentieth Century China chronicles these uprisings with the words and images of the participants. The manifesto delivered by Sun Yat-sen in 1905, for example, details his plan to oust the Manchus; an editorial in a student journal encourages the activities of the May Fourth Movement in 1919; a 1933 speech by Chiang Kai-shek condemns China's enemies, the Communists and the Japanese; and the lyrics of a Chinese rock star give voice to the student demonstrations at the end of the 1980s. This is the story of the people-leaders and followers-whose decisions propelled modern Chinese history in erratic directions. Mao Zedong's personal physician recalls the phenomenon of the backyard steel furnaces and the changes they brought to the Chinese landscape during Mao's Great Leap Forward, a poem written in 1979 expresses anger toward a general who destroyed a kindergarten to build a mansion on its site, and the box from the Chinese version of Monopoly, introduced in 1987, playfully illustrates the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin. Using a wide variety of primary sources, such as official reports and public statements, eyewitness and participant accounts, newspaper articles, political posters, cartoons, poetry, songs, and advertisements, R. Keith Schoppa paints a picture of a society undergoing dramatic changes, both political and social. Taken together, these documents tell a dramatic and often violent tale, alternately soaring with hope and plunging into deep despair, of a country undergoing a thorough transformation-a transformation that affects the world at large. Book jacket.
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