Modern China - A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction addresses the themes, developments, and controversies that have shaped Modern China. Covering a range of social issues, Rana Mitter provides a contemporary view of the world's most populous nation, with a new acknowledgement of China's changing foreign policy, and its unique engagement with the internet.

List of contents

• 1: What is modern China?


• 2: The old order and the new


• 3: Making China modern


• 4: Is Chinese society modern?


• 5: Is China's economy modern?


• 6: Is Chinese culture modern?


• 7: Brave new China?

About the author

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004). His book China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (2014) won the 2014 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, and was a 2014 CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title. His book China's War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival was named a Book of the Year in the Economist and the Financial Times. He is a presenter for BBC Radio 3's arts and ideas programme Free
Thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Rana Mitter, Rana (St Lee Chair in Us-Asia Relations At Mitter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.09.2025
• EAN: 9780198931102
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893110-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, Regional & national history, HISTORY / World, Society & culture: general, Social issues & processes, Asian History, General and world history, Society and culture: general, Social and ethical issues