Rebellions and revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s /
Jack Gray.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- lxiv, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- The Short Oxford history of the modern world .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-419) and index.
1.THE TRADITIONAL SOCIETY European Views on China -- The Traditional Economy -- The Political System -- The Socialization Process
2.THE OPENING OF CHINA The European Trade with East Asia -- The Problem of Jurisdiction -- The Opium Crisis and War, 1836-1842 -- The Treaty of Nanjing
3.THE TAIPING REBELLION, 1850-1864 Disorder and Rebellion -- The Origins of the Rebellion -- The Taiping Kingdom -- The Course of the Rebellion -- The Foreign Powers and the Taipings
4.CONFLICT WITH THE WESTERN POWERS, 1843-1861 Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1843-1857 -- The Origins of the Second War -- The Third War, I860 -- China's Inner Frontiers and the Advance of Russia
5.THE SELF-STRENGTHENING MOVEMENT Opportunities, Political and Economic, 1861-1894 -- Court Politics after 1860 -- Foreign Relations, 1861-1894 -- The First Sino-Japanese war, 1894 --The Question of Imperialism
6.REFORM AND REVOLUTION The Reform Movement of 1898 -- The Boxer Movement -- The End of the Monarchy -- The Government of Yuan Shikai
7.THE CHINESE ECONOMY Developments between I9I2 and 1938 -- Rural China -- Traditional Handicrafts -- Public Debt -- Foreign Enterprise and China
8.THE WAR-LORD ERA The Origins of War-lordism -- The Split in the Beiyang Army -- The Zhili-Anhui—Fengtian Wars -- The Effects of War-lordism
9.THE RADICALIZATION OF CHINESE POLITICS Sun Yatsen and Events in the South, I9I3-1923 -- The May Fourth Movement -- Founders of Chinese Communism
10.THE RISE OF CHIANG KAISHEK The Guomindang and the Zhejiang Connection. 1911-1926 -- The Labour Movement -- The Communists and the Peasants -- Chiang Kaishek and the Communists, 1925-1927
11.THE NATIONALIST REGIME, 1928-1937 The Legacy of Sun Yatsen -- Opposition to the Nationalist Regime, 1928-1933 -- The Record of the Nationalist Regime -- Chinese Fascism, 1928-1937
12.THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1927-1934 The Policy of Insurrection -- The Rise of the Rural Soviets -- The Li Lisan Line -- Mao Zedong and the Jiangxi Soviet, 1931-1934
13.THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1935-1949 The Long March. 1934-1935 -- The Second United Front, 1937-1945 -- 'Maoism' in the 1940s -- The Victory of the Chinese Communist Party
14.THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC, 1949-1957 The Early Years of Communist Rule, 1949-1953 -- Land Reform and Economic Recovery, 1949-1953 -- The Imposition of Intellectual Control -- China's First Five Year Plan, 1953-1957 -- Ten Great Relationships and A Hundred Flowers, 1956
15.THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD Economic Problems, 1956-1958 -- The Chinese Communes -- The Failure of the Leap, 1958-1960 -- China's Foreign Policy, 1949-1963 -- The Sino-Soviet Split
16.THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION, I The Socialist Education Movement, 1963-1965 -- The Polarization of Chinese Politics, 1963-1965 -- The Aims of the Cultural Revolution -- The Course of the Cultural Revolution -- Policy Questions in the Cultural Revolution
17.THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION, II The 'Paris Communes', January 1967 -- The 'Revolutionary Committees', 1967-1968 -- The Little Red Book -- The Restoration of Party Power, 1968-1969 -- The Fall of Lin Biao -- The Aftermath, 1975-1976, and a Summing-up
18.CHINA SINCE THE DEATH OF MAO The Re-emergence of Deng Xiaoping, 1976-1981 -- Economic Reform after 1978 -- The Revolution in Agriculture -- Political Reform -- The Modernization of China --Economic Reform after 1978 -- The Revolution in Agriculture -- Political Reform -- The Modernization of China