Rebellions and Revolutions : China from the 1880s to 2000

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Cover; 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, 1843-1861Anglo-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 handicraftsPublic 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 YatsenOpposition 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, 1949-1953The 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