Rejuvenating a Tradition
Reform and Revolution in Modern China
Will be published approx. on 1. September 1990
Book
Hardback
X, 232 pages
978-0-8204-1223-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book collects eleven articles and reviews on the history of modern China with particular emphasis on the themes of reform and revolution. The topics include the reform thought of Feng Kuei-fen and Wang T'ao, the changing Chinese world view, the quest for a constitutional monarchy and economic modernization, the significance of the Kuang-hsu emperor to the 1898 Reform, the 1911 Revolution in provinces, and the nature of the May Fourth Movement.
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Person
The Author: Young-tsu Wong is Professor of Asian History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has been a visiting professor in mainland China, Taiwan, and Australia. Among his many books, the most recent are Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China, 1869-1936 (Oxford, 1989) and On Historiography (1988, in Chinese).
Content
Contents: Studies in reform and revolution in modern Chinese history in terms of ideas, personalities, world view, and institutional changes.