China's revolution, as time passes, may well stand out as the epicentric event of the late years of the second millennium. Certainly no event has affected so many human beings, directly and indirectly. It is the great gift of John Fairbank's knowledge and skill to tell this story in compact, dry, often humorous terms in a manner which does not debase scholarship in order to inform the general public. Fairbank's The Great Chinese Revolution is a small classic, permeated with insight and earthy touches. It will be read widely and for many years.
Foreword
Chronology
1. Understanding China's Revolution
PART I:
LATE IMPERIAL CHINA:
GROWTH AND CHANGE,1800-1895
2. The Manchu Rulers' Outlook from Peking
3. Some Theoretical Approaches
4. The Growth of Commerce Before the Treaty Period
5. Problems.Within Chinese Society
6. The Western Intrusion
7. Efforts at Modernization
PART II:
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATE
IMPERIAL ORDER, 1895-1911
8. Reform and Reaction
9. The Genesis of the Revolution of 1911
PART III:
THE ERA OF THE FIRST
CHINESE REPUBLIC,1912-1949
10. The Early Chinese Republic and Its Problems
11. The New Culture and Sino-Liberal Education
12. The Nationalist Revolution and the First KMT-CCP
United Front
13. Nationalists and Communists, 1927-1937
14. The War of Resistance and Civil War, 1937-1949
PART IV:
THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
1949-1985
15. Creating the New State
16. The Great Leap Forward and Its Consequences
17. Mao's Greaf Proletarian Cultural Revolution
18. New Directions: Deng Hsiao-p'ing's Reforms
19. Perspectives
Anti-Bibliographic note
Appendix: The Cambridge History of China, Contents,
Volumes 10-15
Sources of Quotations
Index
MAPS
China
Late Imperial China
Railways of China
People's Republic of China