01237nam a2200289Ia 4500 TVU_11287 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0192803417 9780192803412 eng 951.06 R185 Mitter, Rana A China's struggle with the modern world Rana Mitter Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004 xix, 357 p. ill. 25 cm Includes bibliographical references and index 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 China; China Rana Mitter Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh