The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800-1985

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Contents Foreword Part I. Late Imperial China: Growth and Change, 1800 - 1895 1 Understanding China's Revolution 2 The Manchu Rulers' Outlook from Peking 3 Some Theoretical Approaches 4 The Growth of Commerce Before the Treaty Period 5 Problems Within Chinese Society 6 The Western Intrusion 7 Efforts at Modernization Part II. The Transformation of the Late Imperial Order, 1895 - 1911 8 Reform and Reaction 9 The Genesis of the Revolution of 1911 Part III. The Era of the First Chinese Republic, 1912-1949 10 The Early Chinese Republic and Its Problems 11 The New Culture and Sino-Liberal Education 12 The Nationalist Revolution and the First KMT-CCP United Front 13 Nationalists and Communists, 1927-1937 14 The War of Resistance and Civil War, 1937-1949 Part IV. The Chinese People’s Republic, 1949 - 1985 15 Creating the New State 16 The Great Leap Forward and Its Consequences 17 Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 18 New Directions: Deng Hsiao-p'ing's Reforms 19 Perspectives Anti-Bibliographic Note Appendix: The Cambridge History of China, Contents, Volumes 10-15 Sources of Quotations Index