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A Bitter Revolution by Rana Mitter
Category: History | Series: Making of the Modern World
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.
China s War with Japan 1937-1945 The Struggle for Survival by Mitter Rana
Category: Asian History
China's Good War - How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
Category: History
A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."--Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contem ...Show more
China's Good War - How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
Category: History
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a key foundation of China's rising nationalism.For most of its history, the People's Republic of China limited public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
Category: History
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
Category: History
In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps th ...Show more
Modern China (A Very Short Introduction) by Rana Mitter
Category: Culture
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, hei ...Show more
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristiccities, heir to ...Show more
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