History of Modern China, Volume 3; Zhongguo Jindai Shigao (Di San Ce)
Beijing: People's Publishing House; Renmin Chubanshe, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. Vol. 3 only. Trade softcover, very good, light wear and soil, pages toned. 391 pp, several pages of photoplates at rear. The third volume of the authoritative multi-volume draft history of modern China produced by the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the PRC's leading research institution for the period. This volume covers the years 1864–1901, treating the formation of the semi-colonial, semi-feudal system and the Chinese people's resistance to imperialist domination and the threatened partition of China. The table of contents shows two major chapters: Chapter Seven on the 1898 bourgeois reformist movement (the Hundred Days Reform), covering the brief wave of national capitalism, the rise and high tide of the reform movement, the ideological confrontation between reformist and feudal thought, the Hundred Days Reform itself, the Empress Dowager's reactionary coup, the Guangxu Emperor's contradictory position, and the reformists' vacillation and retreat; and Chapter Eight on the Boxer Movement of 1900, covering its nationwide impact, the foreign intervention, and related topics. Very good. Item #h45361
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