Table of Contents

The traditional society; the opening of China; the Taiping rebellion, 1850-1864; conflict with the western powers, 1843-1861; the self-stengthening movement; reform and revolution; the Chinese economy; the war-load era; the radicalization of Chinese politics; the rise of Chiang Kaishek; the Nationalist regime, 1928-1937; the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934; the Chinese Communist Party, 1935-1949; the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1957; the Great Leap Forward; the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I; the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II; China since the death of Mao; the road to Tiananmen.

Reviews

"Gray's analytical and argumentative approach is especially useful on the late 19th-century modernisation processes."--London Review of Books"Gray has incorporated the latest scholarship and presented a lively, cogent, and hardheaded case for the benefits of Western contact and the rationality of warlord responses during the Republican era....This is a refreshingly candid reassessment of modern Chinese history that opens up many new avenues of investigation."--Choice"Jack Gray's work is at once readable and definitive as a political survey."--Steven Sage, Middle Tennessee State University