9780415831017-0415831016-China: How the Empire Fell (Asia's Transformations)

China: How the Empire Fell (Asia's Transformations)

ISBN-13: 9780415831017
ISBN-10: 0415831016
Edition: 1
Author: Joseph Esherick, C.X. George Wei
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415831017
ISBN-10: 0415831016
Edition: 1
Author: Joseph Esherick, C.X. George Wei
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 328 pages

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China: How the Empire Fell (Asia's Transformations) (ISBN-13: 9780415831017 and ISBN-10: 0415831016), written by authors Joseph Esherick, C.X. George Wei, was published by Routledge in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent China: How the Empire Fell (Asia's Transformations) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic fuelled further revolutionary movements, each intended to be more thoroughgoing than the last, from the National Revolution of the 1920s, to the Communist Revolution, and finally the Cultural Revolution.

On the centenary of the 1911 Revolution, Chinese scholars debated the causes and significance of the empire’s collapse, and this book presents twelve of the most important contributions. Rather than focusing on Sun Yat-sen’s relatively weak and divided revolutionary movement, as much previous scholarship has, these studies examine the internal dynamics of political and socio-economic change in China. The chapters reveal how reforms in education, army organization, and constitutional rule created new social forces and political movements that undermined dynastic legitimacy within China and on its frontiers. Through detailed analyses, using new archival, memoir, diary, and newspaper sources, the authors cast new light on the sudden collapse of an empire that many thought was at last embarked on a road to reform and national rejuvenation.

China: How the Empire Fell will be of huge interest to students and scholars of modern Chinese history as well as those of contemporary China.

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