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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China's Revolutions in the Modern World
In your book, China's Revolutions in the Modern World, you present seven chapters. The first chapter starts with the Taiping Rebellion in the mid 19th century. I don't think that you can draw a straight line from the Taipings to the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 20th century. And so it's about how people are forced to reread their past in fashioning a new present and imagining a new future.
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