Revolution and Its Past

List of Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on Pronunciation Part 1 From the Heights to the Depths: Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780-1901 1 Identities 2 Chinese, Manchus, and Others 3 The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity 4 An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitments to Traditional Chinese Identities 5 Crises and Choices 6 The Devastating Nineties: Destroying Traditional Identities Part 2 "No Checking the Tides of Change": Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901-1928 7 Revolutionaries: Manchu and Anti-Manchu 8 Selecting Identities: The Early Republic 9 Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement 10 Drawing the Sword of Opposition: Identity Increasingly Politicized Part 3 Revolution and Identity: Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928-1960 11 Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade 12 Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s 13 A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, The 1920s and 1930s 14 The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 15 Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China's Identity, 1945-1949 16 Paths to the Future 17 Coming Unglued Part 4 From "Politics in Command" to the Glory of Getting Rich: Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961-2018 18 Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 19 Reforms and Reactions, 1978-1995 20 The Economic Miracle and Its Shadows, 1992-2018 21 Whither China? 2008-2018 22 Nationalism and Globalization, 1988-2018 23 A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s Pronunciation Guide Index