Rebellions and Revolutions by Gray, Jack -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Preface

Preface1

Contents List of maps and tables Chronology Emperors of the late Qing dynasty The Imperial examination system Notes on Chinese names 1. The traditional society

European views on China The traditional economy The political system The socialization process

2. The opening of China

The European trade with East Asia The problem of jurisdiction The opium crisis and war 1836–1842 The Treaty of Nanjing

3. The Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864

Disorder and rebellion The origins of the rebellion The Taiping kingdom The course of the rebellion The foreign powers and the Taipings

4. Conflict with the Western powers, 1843–1861

Anglo-Chinese relations, 1843–1857 The origins of the second war The third war, 1860 China's inner frontiers and the advance of Russia

5. The self-strengthening movement

Opportunities, political and economic, 1861–1894 Court politics after 1860 Foreign relations, 1861–1894 The first Sino-Japanese war, 1894 The question of imperialism

6. Reform and revolution

The reform movement of 1898 The Boxer movement The end of the monarchy The government of Yuan Shikai

7. The Chinese economy

Developments between 1912 and 1938 Rural China Traditional handicrafts Public debt Foreign enterprise and China

8. The war-lord era

The origins of war-lordism The split in the Beiyang army The Zhili-Anhui-Fengtian wars The effects of war-lordism

9. The radicalization of Chinese politics

Sun Yatsen and events in the south, 1913–1923 The May Fourth Movement Founders of Chinese communism

10. The rise of Chiang Kaishek

The Guomindang and the Zhejiang connection, 1911–1926 The labour movement The Communists and the peasants Chiang Kaishek and the Communists, 1925–1927

11. The Nationalist regime, 1928–1937

The legacy of Sun Yatsen Opposition to the Nationalist regime, 1928–1933 The record of the Nationalist regime Chinese Fascism, 1928–1937

12. The Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934

The policy of insurrection The rise of the rural Soviets The Li Lisan Line Mao Zedong and the Jiangxi Soviet, 1931–1934

13. The Chinese Communist Party, 1935–1949

The Long March, 1934–1935 The Second United Front, 1937–1945 'Maoism' in the 1940s The victory of the Chinese Communist Party

14. The Chinese People’s Republic, 1949–1957

The early years of Communist rule, 1949–1953 Land reform and economic recovery, 1949–1953 The imposition of intellectual control China's First Five Year Plan, 1953–1957 Ten Great Relationships and a Hundred Flowers, 1956

15. The Great Leap Forward

Economic problems, 1956–1958 The Chinese communes The failure of the Leap, 1958–1960 China's foreign policy, 1949–1963 The Sino-Soviet split

16. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I

The Socialist Education Movement, 1963–1965 The polarization of Chinese politics, 1963–1965 The aims of the Cultural Revolution The course of the Cultural Revolution Policy questions in the Cultural Revolution

17. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II

The 'Paris Communes', January 1967 The 'revolutionary committees', 1967–1968 The Little Red Book The restoration of Party power, 1968–1969 The fall of Lin Biao The aftermath, 1975–1976, and a summing-up The second dismissal of Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong in retrospect

18. China since the death of Mao

The re-emergence of Deng Xiaoping, 1976–1981 The first steps to economic reform Changes in rural China Reforming the State sector Problems of political reform, 1978–1989

19. Reaction and renewed reform

The economy since 1993 Political reform since 1992

Conclusion: The modernization of China

Wealth and strength The standard of living Foreign policy The return of Hong Kong Modernization versus Westernization The other China: Taiwan Chinese intellectual tradition and Western influence Human rights in China

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