Recollections of the Revolution of 1911
Recollections of the Revolution of 1911

Author: Wu Yuzhang

Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.

Published: 2001-08

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 089875531X

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The Revolution of 1911 was the revolution which overthrew the feudal system of monarchy in China. Wu Yuzhang was a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and personally took part in this revolution.In this book he puts down his own fighting experience, and analyses the revolution with keen insight and the aid of a rich fund of material. His answers to the following questions are especially instructive: Why did the revolution break out? What were the causes of its achievements and eventual failure? What part did the people play in this revolution? This book will help the reader to have a deeper understanding of this momentous revolution in China's history.

The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren
The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

Author: Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9004292667

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Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.

China Witness
China Witness

Author: Xinran

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-04-20

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0307388530

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China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel’s Working and Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China—a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.

Democracy Denied, 1905-1915
Democracy Denied, 1905-1915

Author: Charles KURZMAN

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0674039858

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Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.

The Political Thought of Sun Yat-sen
The Political Thought of Sun Yat-sen

Author: A. Wells

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-10-29

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1403919755

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The significance of Sun Yat-sen's political thought has rarely been appreciated though he is hailed as the Father of Modern China. This is the first extended treatment of the subject, which will be invaluable to sinologists and historians of political thought. Dr Wells first traces the development of Sun's revolutionary ideas from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. She then considers the impact of Sun's political thought on Chinese revolutionary leaders and on Third World countries, arguing that it has been considerable. This subject has never before been so widely explored.