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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The Nationalist Revolution in China, Part I
The transition from a dynastic empire to the nation state, marked by the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912. You describe the Republican revolution which successfully ousted theFall of the Qing as one of the many global nationalist revolutions of the first decade of the 20th century. That elaborated an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial motivation of social upheaval. And through these kind of narratives, you really dive into the complexity of the historical questions being raised.
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