Revolution and Its Past de R. Keith Schoppa

Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History

R. Keith Schoppa

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Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.
A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of how the Chinese as a people have struggled and continue to work to find their identity in the modern world. Beginning in the last two decades of the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736–1795), the book provides a baseline that allows readers to understand China’s rapid decline in the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, and extends into the present day, a time when China has the second largest economy in the world and aims to become a leading global power by 2050. The vast changes that have swept over China between these times are probed through the lens of the broad and important theme of "identities." This fourth edition has been updated throughout, providing a more thorough examination of recent history since 1960, and increasing coverage of such topics as "new Qing history," frontier and ethnicity, women and their roles, environmental concerns and issues, and globalization.
Supported by maps, images, tables, online eResources and suggestions for further reading, and written in an engaging, concise, and authoritative style, Revolution and Its Past is the ideal textbook for all students of the history of modern China.

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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

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R. Keith Schoppa is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. From 1998 to 2014, he served as the Doehler Chair in Asian History. His research focused on the political, social, and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century. His major research works include Chinese Elites and Political Change (1982); Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life (1989); Blood Road (1995), for which he won the Association for Asian Studies Levenson Award; and In a Sea of Bitterness (2011).

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Chapter 2 has been substantially reorganized to explore more fully the “genius” of the Chinese imperial system that gave rise to the wealth and power of the Chinese state in the mid-to-late eighteenth century and to its admiration and acclaim in the West at the time.
Chapters 19 and 20 have been completely reorganized in response to readers’ suggestions:
- Chapter 19 now focuses on the economic reforms since 1980 and their many social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental ramifications, allowing students to concentrate on the economic changes of the reform period rather than mixing these changes with other developments chronologically in two chapters as the second edition had done.
- Chapter 20 analyzes the political, diplomatic, and cultural developments of the reform period, with special focus on the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the spectacular success of which marked a milestone in China’s international reputation.
Reflects the most recent scholarship throughout the text.

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A dramatic story—Breathes life into the story of modern China by casting it as a story of men and women whose choices shaped modern Chinese history in what often turned out to be startling directions. Presents it as a story filled with some triumphs but also with tragedy--a tale that is often bloody and violent, alternately soaring with hope and plunging into bleak despair.
- Captures and maintains students' interest in the history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation state as well as in how the individual “heirs of the dragon” have struggled and continue to struggle to find their identity in the modern world.
Develops the broad theme of identity: “Heirs of the dragon” —Explores traditional identities under the “dragon” (the symbol of traditional Chinese civilization which has formidable power over today's Chinese) as well as various modern identities that recent generations have tried to adopt.
- Immediately appeals to students today for whom the concept of “identity” resonates by helping them understand what it has meant and what it means in the early twenty-first century for the Chinese to be “heirs of the dragon.”
Addresses the question of what China is and where China is going—Helps students make sense out of the anomalies and setbacks that characterize Chinese civilization as it moves into the modern world with unprecedented speed.
- This question is crucial to readers, both as students and citizens, because, as the twenty-first century progresses, China will be a significant player in world affairs and, if we hope to deal effectively with China and its people, we must understand their past and present.
Historical and geographical context—Uses history and geography as important backdrops for the events that are discussed--e.g., discussions of the geographical macro regions provide valuable insights throughout for the interpretation of specific Chinese developments.
- Helps students understand how local contexts and cultures are extraordinarily important for understanding the nature of the twentieth century Chinese revolution.
A non-traditional periodization—Helps students see continuities where historians once saw only major differences. For example, rather than framing the 1911 revolution as the event that ended the monarchy, author R. Keith Schoppa argues that the reform of the Manchus in their last decade of existence shares more with post-1911 developments than with dynastic developments in the nineteenth century.
- Enables students to see new possibilities in our understanding of historical periods and the fluidity of historical “markers.”
The “beginning” of modern China is redefined —This text presents the last two decades of the reign of one of China's greatest emperors, the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795), rather than the Opium War (1839-1842), as the beginning of the “modern” period and shows that important changes already underway in the eighteenth century foreshadowed developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Provides a baseline for understanding China's rapid decline in the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century and for better interpreting one of the most important problems facing individual Chinese as well as China as a nation during this decline and the subsequent revolution that took place.
Treats Taiwan as a major part of the Chinese experience—Unlike other texts which treat Taiwan as a mere “footnote” in modern Chinese history, this text explores Taiwan in several chapters and focuses on it exclusively in the last chapter, where it covers developments that took place there from the 1970s to the present.
- Helps students understand the present stand-off between the island and the mainland.
Suggestions for Further Reading—Each chapter concludes with a brief commentary by author R. Keith Schoppa on five important books that further explore some of the topics discussed within the chapter.
- Ideal for those interested in going beyond this text to pursue certain topics in greater depth.
Phonetic Pronunciation Guide–At the end of the book is a glossary containing the names of major historical figures and key geographical locations with their Pinyin spelling and phonetic pronunciation.
- Enables students to pronounce Chinese names and to remember them.

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