Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Japanese goals, Chinese realities at the grassroots: the Japanese Occupation in northern Zhejiang, 1937-42 -- 2 The rise of the Chinese Communist military-fiscal party-state in Shandong Province, 1937-45 -- 3 New China Daily: social change and the class project in wartime Nationalist China -- 4 Liberation: a view from the Southwest -- 5 The search for a Socialist everyday: the urban communes -- 6 Changes in the rural land system and power structure in the countryside -- 7 "There is no crisis and it is going to go away soon, anyhow"-propaganda, denialism and revisionism in debating the Great Leap Forward famine -- 8 Gospel light or imperialist poison? Controversies of the Christian community in China, 1922-55 -- 9 A (wo)men's revolution? Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China's long twentieth century -- 10 The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925-49) -- 11 The New Life Movement and national sacrifice -- 12 Learning the new culture: rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s -- 13 Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945-60 -- 14 Chinese professions, the nation and revolution, 1895-1965 -- 15 Roles of the beautiful nation in the making of a revolutionary Middle Kingdom -- 16 Closest model, rival and fateful enemy: China's political economy, law and Japan -- 17 Ambiguous paradigms: the Russian model and the Chinese Revolution -- 18 All rivers flow into the sea: the making of China's most cosmopolitan city -- 19 Public space and public life: transformation of urban China, 1900-2000 -- 20 The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895-1949: progress, hygiene and national concern -- 21 Chinese revolutions and the ebb and flow of revolutionary historiography -- Index.

This handbook covers the evolution of Chinese society from the roots of the Republic of China in the early 1900s until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Taking a comprehensive approach, the themes covered include: War, occupation and liberation; Religion and gender; Education, cities and travel.

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