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Perspectives on modern China : four anniversaries

Considers four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world.
Print Book, English, ©1991
M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y., ©1991
Kongress Annapolis (Md.) 1989
xiii, 433 pages ; 24 cm.
9780873328142, 9780873328906, 0873328140, 0873328906
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Emperors and the Chinese political system / Alexander Woodside
The structure of the Chinese economy during the Qing period : some thoughts on the 150th anniversary of the Opium War / Madeleine Zelin
Models of historical change : the Chinese state and society, 1839-1989 / Frederic Wakeman, Jr
The enlightenment mentality and the Chinese intellectual dilemma / Tu Wei-ming
The May Fourth movement as a historical turning point : ecological exhaustion, militarization, and other causes of China's modern crisis / Lloyd E. Eastman
The social agenda of May Fourth / Evelyn S. Rawski
Modernity and its discontents : the cultural agenda of the May Fourth movement / Leo Ou-fan Lee
The May Fourth era : China's place in the world / Michael H. Hunt
Powers of state, paradoxes of dominion : China 1949-1979 / Vivienne Shue. The pattern and legacy of economic growth in the Mao era / Barry Naughton
State and society in the Mao era / Martin King Whyte
Chinese communism in the era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976 / Thomas P. Bernstein
The Deng era's uncertain political legacy / Michel Oksenberg
The lasting effect of China's economic reforms, 1979-1989 / Dwight H. Perkins
The renegotiation of Chinese cultural identity in the post-Mao era : an anthropological perspective / James L. Watson
Reflections on the opening of China / James R. Townsend
"An East gate book."
Based on papers from the Four Anniversaries China Conference, held Sept. 10-15, 1989 in Annapolis, Md
Based on papers from the Four Anniversaries China Conference, held Sept. 10-15, 1989 in Annapolis, Md.