Rebellions and Revolutions by Jack Gray

Rebellions and Revolutions by Jack Gray

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An accessible analysis of China from the 1800s to the present day, focusing on its problems of development, and including the recent events in Tiananmen Square. The author addresses crucial questions about the collapse of Imperial China and the emergence of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Rebellions and Revolutions by Jack Gray

Why did Imperial China collapse? What were the causes of the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party? Why did Commuist China rebel against Stalinist methods of socialist construction? These are among the questions addressed in this comprehensive, one-volume history of China from the 1800s to the present. Gray focuses on China's problems of development--the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, its rapid recovery since the Communist Party revolution of 1949--and carries his analysis through to the massacre in Tiananmen Square. His accessible text is supplemented by a chronology, eight maps, full notes and index, and a list of further reading, making this an indispensable volume for all students of Chinese and Asian history.

Jack Gray is Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Democratisation at the University of Warwick.
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ISBN 13 9780198215769
ISBN 10 0198215762
Title Rebellions and Revolutions
Author Jack Gray
Series Short Oxford History Of The Modern World Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1990-04-01
Number of pages 527
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