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Book The Chinese Revolution  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Chinese Revolution Classic Reprint written by Arthur Judson Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chinese Revolution A new China is emerging. Whatever may be the immediate developments, however short or long the process of readjustment, We cannot doubt the outcome. This book is not, of course, intended to be a final account of either the process or the result, but an aid to the study of the large out standing causes and of their operation thus far. These causes are clear, and a knowledge of them is indispensable to an understanding of the extra ordinary significance of the reconstruction which is now taking place. I have used some parts of my former and larger book, New Forces in Old China, which are applicable to present conditions and the scope of this little book - the publishers, The Fleming H. Revell Company, having given their approval. This material, however, has been readjusted, wherever necessary, and brought down to date. Considerable new matter has been added, so that this book is intended to be a separate one representing the present situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book A Revelation of the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book A Revelation of the Chinese Revolution written by John J. Mullowney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Revelation of the Chinese Revolution: A Retrospect and Forecast Revolution, General Hwang Hsing to contrast his personality, character, and methods with those of that other prominent figure of modern China, Yuan Shi - kai to protest against the despotic methods of one who calls himself President, but who func tions as a Dictator; and to urge that all well-wish ers of China shall lend their sympathy, their moral, and where possible, their active support to those who are striving to promote Enlightenment and Progress in China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Caught in the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book Caught in the Chinese Revolution written by Ernest F. Borst-Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Caught in the Chinese Revolution: A Record of Risks and Rescue Nothing can be predicated of China as a whole; it is only possible for me to speak of the small section I know. During the Revolution every province, and indeed every town, was affected differently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book China s Revolution  1911 1912

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  • Author : Edwin J. Dingle
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-06
  • ISBN : 9780282198183
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book China s Revolution 1911 1912 written by Edwin J. Dingle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War When the Revolution broke out, I was residing in Hankow. Throughout the war I remained in Hankow, leaving this centre for Shanghai during the days when the Peace Conference was held in that city. I am a personal friend of the leader of the Revolution, General Li Yuan Hung, and, by virtue of having all the time been in possession of much exclusive information from behind the political curtain, am probably equipped to write of the main doings of the Revolution in that area where its effects were most marked. On the very eve of the Revolution, a book written by myself was published simultaneously in England and America, which contains some strangely prophetic utterances, and will give the reader who has not made Chinese politics a study a general idea of the condition of the country when the Revolution made the scales drop from the eyes of her teeming millions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary

Download or read book Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary written by Sun-Yat-Sen Sun-Yat-Sen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary: A Programme of National Reconstruction for China These doubts, moreover, were taken for granted, and even some of my comrades began to entertain doubts concerning the realisation of my programme. Therefore it turned out that my programme had less chances of being realised when I held the post of President than when I was the leader of the Party which was preparing the Revolution. Hence the attempt at reconstruction was not successful, 'and the national tasks, which I put forward, were abandoned after the Revolution. The Chinese Revolution, in the minds of many, was called upon to overthrow the Manchu dynasty and replace itby the tyranny of a group of bandits even more savage and rapacious than the former Tai - tsing Government. This was the direct cause of the further intolerable yoke that cast a shadow over the Chinese people. If we analyse our first promptings to. Carry out the Chinese Revolution, we shall see that we had in View the salvation of the Chinese people and the country whereas the result has been quite the opposite, and the Chinese people IS becoming more and more oppressed, the country more and more unhappy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Through the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book Through the Chinese Revolution written by Fernand Farjenel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through the Chinese Revolution: My Experiences in the South and North the Evolution of Social Life Interviews With Party Leaders an Unconstitutional Loan the Coup D'etat Sooner or later, all the nations of the world must inevitably feel the effects of the Chinese Revolution, which, for the last two years, has convulsed a great part of Asia. Distances being relatively less owing to the rapid means of transit of the present day, it follow's that events in China, whose population of four hundred millions represents nearly a quarter of the whole human race, cannot fail to exercise a profound influence on the world at large. Everything changes in China, including the manners and customs of the people, constituting their social and family life; political parties are in the throes of bitter strife, and, within the last two years, the country has been devastated by two civil wars. The tyranny of a dictatorship has stifled liberty, whilst Europe and Japan, vying with one another in their efforts at intervention, are themselves in grave danger of coming to blows. This serious state of affairs is realized only by a few experts, and I therefore trust that the present volume, comprising as it does the narrative of an eye-witness, will prove of interest to the public. I was travelling in the Far East when the Chinese Revolution broke out, so that I have been able to follow step by step the course of events in Indo-China and Yunnan, as well as in the north, south, and centre of the affected area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Book Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Download or read book Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature written by Tao Dongfeng and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.

Book The Tragedy of Liberation

Download or read book The Tragedy of Liberation written by Frank Dikötter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.

Book Poets of the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book Poets of the Chinese Revolution written by Gregor Benton and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China The Chinese Revolution, which fought its way to power seventy years ago, was a complex and protracted event in which groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations for the Revolution competed, although in the end Mao came to rule over the others. Its veterans included many poets, four of whom feature in this anthology. All wrote in the classical style, but their poetry was no less diverse than their politics. Chen Duxiu, led China’s early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu’s disciple and, like him, a convert to Trotskyism, spent thirty-four years in jail, first under the Nationalists and then under their Maoist nemeses. The guerrilla leader Chen Yi wrote flamboyant and descriptive poems in mountain bivouacs or the heat of battle. Poetry has played a different role in China, and in Chinese Revolution, from in the West—it is collective and collaborative. But in life, the four poets in this collection were entangled in opposition and even bitter hostility towards one another. Together, the four poets illustrate the complicated relationship between Communist revolution and Chinese cultural tradition.

Book The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

Download or read book The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier written by Benno Weiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.

Book China Yesterday and To Day  Classic Reprint

Download or read book China Yesterday and To Day Classic Reprint written by Edward Thomas Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-02 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from China Yesterday and to-Day These peculiarities of costume and custom and others that might be mentioned were universal features of Chinese civilization until the revolution of 1911. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book A Concise Record of Events and Views

Download or read book A Concise Record of Events and Views written by W. V. Drummond and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Concise Record of Events and Views: Since the Commencement of the Revolution in China, in October 1911 The writer of these articles has lived for forty years at Shanghai, China, and during the whole of that time has given a careful and continuous study to the political conditions affecting China, and the Far East generally. It may therefore be fairly considered that the statements and views expressed in these articles are worthy of special attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book China Revolutionized  Classic Reprint

Download or read book China Revolutionized Classic Reprint written by John Stuart Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from China Revolutionized All these questions presented themselves when the re formers startled the world with the announcement that there was to be a republic in China. Lit was to be a republic - not a monarchy said even those Chinese who had been educated in Japan, where lately a Japanese editor educated in America and ten pthers had been tried and executed in secret, the papers sealed, and the press censored. They wanted pitiless publicity in the new republican China. Had there been no abatement of the Opium habit through Amer ica's leadership Of sentiment, and Britain's sacrifice of rev enue from 1909 to 1911, there could have been no rebellion in 1911. The reform cleared the befogged heads of the nation, added a million men to agitation, and furnished a hundred million dollars directly and indirectly toward the independence Of the agitators. How great a stone America and Britain set rolling in that Opium Conference of 1909 at Shanghai! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Cowshed

Download or read book The Cowshed written by Ji Xianlin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, a professor of Eastern languages, is persecuted by lecturers and students from his own department. His home is raided, his most treasured possessions are destroyed, and Ji himself must endure hours of humiliation at brutal “struggle sessions.” He is forced to construct a cowshed (a makeshift prison for intellectuals who were labeled class enemies) in which he is then housed with other former colleagues. His eyewitness account of this excruciating experience is full of sharp irony, empathy, and remarkable insights into a central event in Chinese history. In contemporary China, the Cultural Revolution remains a delicate topic, little discussed, but if a Chinese citizen has read one book on the subject, it is likely to be Ji’s memoir. When The Cowshed was published in China in 1998, it quickly became a bestseller. The Cultural Revolution had nearly disappeared from the collective memory. Prominent intellectuals rarely spoke openly about the revolution, and books on the subject were almost nonexistent. By the time of Ji’s death in 2009, little had changed, and despite its popularity, The Cowshed remains one of the only testimonies of its kind. As Zha Jianying writes in the introduction, “The book has sold well and stayed in print. But authorities also quietly took steps to restrict public discussion of the memoir, as its subject continues to be treated as sensitive. The present English edition, skillfully translated by Chenxin Jiang, is hence a welcome, valuable addition to the small body of work in this genre. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of that period.”

Book The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution written by Harold Robert Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China in War and Revolution  1895 1949

Download or read book China in War and Revolution 1895 1949 written by Peter Zarrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing historical insights, essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this book explores the events that led to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century.

Book China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation

Download or read book China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation written by Jean Chesneaux and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: