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Author Vohra, Ranbir.

Title China's path to modernization : a historical review from 1800 to the present / Ranbir Vohra
Edition Third edition
Published Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2000]
©2000

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 MELB  951.033 Voh/Cpt 2000  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 324 pages : map ; 24 cm
Contents The Pinyin System -- 1. China on the Eve of European Aggression -- 2. The End of Isolation: 1800-1860 -- 3. Decline of the Old Order, Beginning of the New: 1860-1895 -- 4. China Turns to Revolution: 1895-1911 -- 5. The Republic That Never Was: 1912-1927 -- 6. The Nationalist Government: 1928-1937 -- 7. The Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rise of Chinese Communists to Power: 1937-1949 -- 8. From "Liberation" to "Independence": 1949-1958 -- 9. From Consensus to Factional Conflict: 1959-1966 -- 10. From the Cultural Revolution to Mao's Death: 1966-1976 -- 11. Deng Xiao-ping's New Model for China: 1976-1992 -- 12. The Blossoming of Deng's "Second Revolution" 1992-1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index
Subject China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- History -- 20th century.
LC no. 99023117
ISBN 0130807478 paperback