cam a22 4500 528861972 CHVBK 20200709104157.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 180605s2017 maua sb 001 0 eng d 978-0-674-97687-0 978-0-674-98231-4 (ebook) (SERSOL)ssib032186703 (WaSeSS)ssib032186703 MiAaPQ eng MiAaPQ MiAaPQ WaSeSS rda JC311 .B4757 2017 320.540951 23 Bickers Robert A. author Out of China how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination Robert Bickers Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (591 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-491) and index. Armistice -- Making revolution -- Good earth -- Talking it over -- China in the mind -- Monkeys riding greyhounds -- Allies of a kind -- Foreign experts -- Light of Asia -- Monsters and demons -- Unfinished business -- Haunted by history. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China's new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign powers, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers, and Out of China explains why. Bickers tracks the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese regained control of their own country. He describes the corrupt, lurid modernity of prewar Shanghai, the often tiny patches of extraterritorial land controlled by foreign powers, the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means--through armed threats, technology, and legal chicanery--by which China was kept subservient until, gradually, it emerged from Western control. This plural and partial subjugation of China is a story that involves not only European powers and Japan but also the United States. This complex history must be grasped not to atone for the sins of the past but to recognize China's internationalized landscapes with all their contradictions, violence, cosmopolitanism, and ambitions. The story of the foreign presence in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is too important to be left in the hands of the Chinese party-state and its approved script. Out of China is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand what shapes China's view of the world in the twenty-first century.-- Description based on print version record. Nationalism China China Civilization Western influences China Foreign relations China History 20th century Japan Colonies Asia Western countries Colonies Asia China History 19th century Print version Bickers, Robert A. Out of China : how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination. xli, 532 pages 9780674976870 (DLC) 2017028510 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674982314 Uni Basel: Volltext https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674982314 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 De Gruyter PDA SSH eBooks E-Books von 360MarcUpdates PDA Package: All eBook Content, incl. OWV/AV PDA5EBK IDSBB A145 A145 145VT NELA1451809 IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Bickers Robert A. author IDSBB 776 08 Bickers, Robert A Print version Out of China : how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination xli, 532 pages 9780674976870 (DLC) 2017028510 IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674982314 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674982314 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 486401324