Bitter Revolution
Bitter Revolution In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern.…
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Bitter Revolution
In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to the May Fourth Movement. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history.
Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this New Culture movement made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed.
Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that followed,
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