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Informationen zum Autor Diana Lary is Professor of History, affiliated with Centre of Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. Her recent publications include, with Thomas Gottschang, Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria (2000) and, with Stephen MacKinnon, The Scars of War: The Impact of War on Chinese Society (2001). Klappentext Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic! which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule! still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912! through the Nanjing decade! the warlord era! and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter! in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period! she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan! comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists! Chinese proverbs! love stories! poetry and a feast of illustrations. Zusammenfassung A concise and accessible history of the Chinese Republic! which was established in 1912 at the end of the Chinese Empire and ended in 1949 when mainland China fell to the Communists. It marked the beginning of a period of intense change as China struggled towards modernisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The decline of Empire, the dream of a Republic: 1890s-1911; 2. The early republic: chaos and creativity: 1912-28; 3. The Nanjing decade: a new beginning? 1928-37; 4. The resistance war: warfare and chaos: 1937-45; 5. Civil War: the most vicious conflict 1946-9; 6. More than survival: the Republic of Taiwan 1949-to the present; Conclusion....
