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China's Quest for Modernization

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The seventeen essays collected here, written by Chinese and U.S. scholars, explore the reasons for China's historical failure to modernize and develop recommendations on the path China should follo...
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The seventeen essays collected here, written by Chinese and U.S. scholars, explore the reasons for China's historical failure to modernize and develop recommendations on the path China should follow in its current quest for modernization. The book opens with a general review and then moves into economic, political and social, cultural, foreign relations, population, comparative, and regional studies.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 408
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Research Papers and Policy Studies
Publication Date: 01 January 1997
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290571
Format: Paperback
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Frederic Wakeman Jr. (1937–2006) was Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Education: B.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Wang Xi is professor of history and economics, Fudan University.

Preface – vii

1. Approaches to the study of modern Chinese history: external versus internal causations– 1
    Wang Xi

2. Middle county radicalism: the May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou – 22
    Wen-Hsin Yeh

3. Evolution of modern Chinese society from the perspective of population changes, 1840-1949 – 50
    Zhang Kaimin

4. Historical demography in late imperial China: recent research results and implications
    James Lee

5. Modernization and the structure of the Chinese economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – 87
    Madeleine Zelin

6. New approach to China's century of great transformation, 1840s-1940s – 129
    Luo Rongqu

7. Western learning and social transmutation in the late Qing – 150
    Chen Jiang

8. Dowager Empress Cixi and Toshmichi: a comparative study of modernization in China and Japan – 175
    Ding Richu

9. Political parties, party conflicts, and society in early Republican China – 191
    Yang Liqiang

10. Intercultural connections and Chinese development: external and internal spheres of modern China's foreign relations – 208
    William C. Kirby

11. Emergence and development of China's modern capitalist enterprises – 234
    Zhang Guohui

12. Popular protest and political progress in modern China – 250
    Elizabeth J. Perry

13. Power structure and modernization policies in twentieth-century China – 267
    Marie-Claire Bergère –

14. Influence of Shanghai's modernization on the economy of the Yangzi Valley – 279
    Zhang Zhongli and Pan Junxiang –

15. State and civil society in the history of Chinese modernity – 300
    Prasenjit Duara

16. Civil society in late imperial and modern China – 325
    Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

17. Issues in the evolution of modern China in East Asian comparative perspective – 352
    Joshua A. Fogel.

Contributors – 382