A China's struggle with the modern world

Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system...

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Main Author: Mitter, Rana
Other Authors: Rana Mitter
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor
Physical Description:xix, 357 p.
ill.
25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0192803417
9780192803412