For those who grew up in Mao's China, their country's history in the last century is filled with
revolutions: the 1911 Revolution, the May Fourth Movement (1915–1923), the 1949 …

Contrary to its initiators' intentions, the Cultural Revolution laid political foundations for a
transition to a market-oriented economy whilst also creating circumstances that helped to …

When I arrived in China in May, 1913, constitutionalism was at the height of its power, the
one seemingly permanent result of the Revolution of 1911. When I left, the principal …

A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it
back. The Chinese dynastic state's blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine …

Over the course of China's twentieth century, the dynastic system crumbled; the traditional
literati-gentry elite disappeared; state–society relations were transformed several times; …

From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change,
brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the …

The questions that lie at the heart of this paper were ones that preoccupied China's
historians in the early twentieth century as they tried to manage the transition from …

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem
in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern …

" Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also
for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins" Democracy Is a …

This is the result of a collaborative effort between scholars from Europe, Asia, and the US.
The book argues that the central underlying theme of China's development trajectory in the …