This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of China's twentieth century that is richly informed by its valent fields of political economy and cultural studies. Western readers' knowledge of China's twentieth century remains based on pioneering research of modern scholars such as Fairbank and Jonathan Spence. In recent years, however, it is rare to see a complete history of China spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which also includes the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This book contributes new narrative and perspective to this span of history. Now, as the Sino-US trade conflict makes dramatic impact on a post-COVID global economy, readers have the need for a fresh understanding of how China came to be what it is today. The author's groundbreaking work provides new insight provided by newly uncovered sources explaining how China came to be what it is today from a cultural and sociological perspective, in a historical mode. Lèu Peng is an eminent art historian, historiographer, critic, and curator. Born in 1956, he served as an associate professor for his alma mater, the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, in Hangzhou. He is now a professor at the Macao University of Science and Technology, as well as at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is Doctor of Letters from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Volume I. Prologue
Introduction: China prior to the twentieth century
Chapter 1. 1900-1912: The era of transformation
Chapter 2. 1912-1927: Disarrangements of power and new intellectual trends
Chapter 3. 1927-1937: The first decade of the national government
Chapter 4. 1937-1949: From the War of Resistance to Civil War
Chapter 5. 1949-1953: A confrontation between two regimes.
Volume II. Chapter 6. 1953-1957: The politics and economy of the People's Republic of China
Chapter 7. 1958-1978: From the Great Leap Forward to Great Cultural Revolution
Chapter 8. 1978-1989: Reform and its politics
Chapter 9. 1990-2002: Marketization trends and involvement in globalization
Chapter 10. 2003-2022: Towards a structural crisis
Epilogue.
ISBN
9789819907335 (2 volume set : hardcover)
9819907330 (2 volume set : hardcover)
OCLC
1369301771
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