NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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Comparative Revolutions in the Nanjing Decade
The anti-Japan war for the first time socially and politically inscribed a highly contested ideological sense of China as a national state that could mobilize a popular defense against a foreign enemy. Could you tell us a bit more about this moment of history during the Nanjing decade? Yeah I mean the Nanjing century points to the moment at which that has that follows the formation of the what soon become the two major political parties in China, the Communist Party and the Guomitang.
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