Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches

This collection is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The three major sections of this work taken into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history and reflections on cultural history. In an attempt to move away from a Western-centered analysis of Chinese history, this volume uses the new wealth of archival material made accessible over the last decade.

Series editor's preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Notes on contributors

xi

Brief chronology

xiv

Introduction

1

(24)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

PART I The shape of a century

25

(56)

Reflections on a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history

27

(10)

Paul A. Cohen

Ten theses on the Chinese Revolution

37

(29)

Joseph W. Esherick

Toward a Chinese feminism: a personal story

66

(15)

Lin Chun

PART II Going local

81

(110)

Newspapers and nationalism in rural China 1890-1929

83

(20)

Henrietta Harrison

Contours of revolutionary change in a Chinese county, 1900--1950

103

(35)

R. Keith Schoppa

Perspectives on the Chinese Communist revolution

138

(31)

Kathleen Hartford

Steven M. Goldstein

Suspect history and the mass line: another ``Yan'an Way''

169

(22)

Chen Yung-Fa

PART III Symbolic turns

191

(46)

The language of liberation: gender and jiefang in early Chinese Communist Party discourse

193

(28)

Harriet Evans

Revolutionary rudeness: the language of Red Guards and rebel workers in China's Cultural Revolution

221

(16)

Elizabeth J. Perry

Li Xun

PART IV Political legitimacy at the century's end

237

(29)

Tiananmen 1989: background and consequences

239

(17)

Marie-Claire Bergere

The year of living anxiously: China's 1999

256

(10)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Index

266

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