具体描述
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.
By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present.
Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.
Readership: The general reader interested in China, students and lecturers of twentieth-century world history, Chinese history, comparative history, and politics.
作者简介
Rana Mitter, Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the Unversity of Oxford
目录信息
1: Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919
2: A Tale of Two Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and the May Fourth Generation
3: Experiments in Happiness: Life and Love in New Culture China
4: Goodbye Confucius: New Culture, New Politics
Part II: Aftershock
5: A Land of Death: Darkness over China
6: Tomorrow the Whole World Will Be Red: The Cultural Revolution and the Distortions of May Fourth
7: Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers: Reform and the 'New May Fourth'
8: Learning to Let Go: The May Fourth Legacy in the New Millennium
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读后感
This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
评分一直不明白为什么会把五四运动和“德先生”与“赛先生”联系起来。《苦涩的革命》（A Bitter Revolution）里面是这样描述90年前那天的情形的：大约3000个学生在天安门会合，聆听了抗议巴黎和会的演说。下午两点学生们听完了演说，举着标语向使馆区行进。当气氛变得更热...
评分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
评分一直不明白为什么会把五四运动和“德先生”与“赛先生”联系起来。《苦涩的革命》（A Bitter Revolution）里面是这样描述90年前那天的情形的：大约3000个学生在天安门会合，聆听了抗议巴黎和会的演说。下午两点学生们听完了演说，举着标语向使馆区行进。当气氛变得更热...
评分一直不明白为什么会把五四运动和“德先生”与“赛先生”联系起来。《苦涩的革命》（A Bitter Revolution）里面是这样描述90年前那天的情形的：大约3000个学生在天安门会合，聆听了抗议巴黎和会的演说。下午两点学生们听完了演说，举着标语向使馆区行进。当气氛变得更热...
用户评价
综述性研究，摊子铺得大，亮点有，但大多点到为止。
评分閱於2018年11月29日
评分閱於2018年11月29日
评分閱於2018年11月29日
评分閱於2018年11月29日
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