A Bitter Revolution by Rana Mitter

A Bitter Revolution by Rana Mitter

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China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.

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A Bitter Revolution by Rana Mitter

China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.
Review from previous edition Breathtaking and authoritative * Graham Hutchings, former China Correspondent, Daily Telegraph *
An impressive and inventively researched book * Financial Times *
With compelling prose and insightful analysis, Rana Mitter paints a brilliant, lively portrait critical to understanding the soul of modern China * Iris Chang, New York Times best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking *
Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) and co-editor (with Patrick Major) of Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social Histories (2003). He has broadcast on topics to do with ancient and modern China and Japan on History Channel television documentaries and on radio.
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ISBN 13 9780192806055
ISBN 10 019280605X
Title A Bitter Revolution
Author Rana Mitter
Series Making Of The Modern World
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2005-05-26
Number of pages 384
Prizes Short-listed for British Academy Book Prize 2005
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.