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NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)

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What Is the Relevance of the Nanjing Decade?

The 1949 revolution is another momentary example of revolution in Chinese modern history that was never purely a nationalist endeavor at least this is what I interpreted from from your book itself. You convincingly convincingly describe how whilst the revolution was profoundly local it was fundamentally global and just now you brought that significance through to this kind of what was happening in the Soviet Union at the time. Yeah well I mean as we know the the competing the Nanjing decade the competing revolutions that I talk about resulted the communists reconstituting their movement up in the northwest and the nationalists inscribing themselves in the central part of China. And then when we invasion the Japanese invade China becomes part of a a global war against

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