ABSTRACT
The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world. With contributions by distinguished scholars in the field, the four anniversaries considered are the High Qing, the May Fourth Movement, forty years of communism in China, and ten years of the Deng era.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|118 pages
1839: The Proscenium of Late Imperial China
chapter 2|37 pages
The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period
part Two|82 pages
May Fourth Anniversary
chapter 5|16 pages
The May Fourth Movement as a Historical Turning Point
part Three|104 pages
The PRC's First Forty Years
part Four|113 pages
The Deng Era