A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback)

A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback)

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Author/Contributor(s): Mitter, Rana
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 08/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage
over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to the May Fourth Movement. Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as
hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this New Culture movement made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that
followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China's recent romance with space-age technology.