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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What Is China?
China in 1927 all the way through you know for many years later it's not clear what kind of China what China. The problem of chinese-ness when becomes one of the most important questions, says Ruth and Branch. By 1911 revolution let's say China gets rethought in mode of a colonized imperialized country that needs to assert its national independence then and then may fourth when China gets understood to be a cultural problem by the 1920s late 1920s and 19 and early 1930s.
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