A Political History of China: The Making of Modern China 1905-2013 - Softcover

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This is the second volume of a two-volume political history of China. It covers the period from the end of the Qing dynasty to the start of Xi Jinping's leadership. The book aims to give Western readers insight into contemporary China, and its international relations, by showing how from its ancient beginnings China became the country it is today. The nine chapters of this second volume cover:
1. Towards a united republic (1905 - 1928)
2. The decade of Nationalist rule in Nanjing (1927/8 - 1937/8)
3. World War II in China (1937 - 1946)
4. The Chinese Civil War and the first phase of Communist rule (1945 - 1953)
5. Early economic development of the PRC and the Great Leap Forward (1953 - 1962)
6. The Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976)
7. From Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening Up to Tiananmen Square (1977 - 1989)
8. The Jiang Zemin era (1993 - 2003)
9. Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao (2003 - 2013)

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