Rana Mitter (Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China

Broschiertes Buch

A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback)

Beschreibung

China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.

Autor

Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) and co-editor (with Patrick Major) of Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social Histories (2003). He has broadcast on topics to do with ancient and modern China and Japan on History Channel television documentaries and on radio.

Produktdetails

• Making of the Modern World
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780192806055
• ISBN-10: 019280605X
• Artikelnr.: 22191149