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John Fitzgerald is Professor of Asian Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.
"Based on broad, accurate scholarship, this distinguished work provides a searching synthesis of a number of important themes in early twentieth-century Chinese history." - Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University "A vivid account of how Chinese revolutionaries and intellectuals awakened China during the Republican Revolution... Initially, Fitzgerald offers an interesting and detailed analysis of the process of awakening China ... illustrated through contemporary developments in the fields of art and architecture, museums and medicine, fiction and essays, journalism and propaganda, political institutions, and mass organization... Second, an important feature of Fitzgerald's book is that the author develops a comparison between the Communists and the Nationalists, between Sun and Mao in their efforts to awaken China... Third, not only does this book add to an understanding of the politics of mass awakening, it also contributes to a broader understanding of Chinese art history, ethics, and ethnography during the first three decades of this century." - Journal of Asian Studies "This is a brilliant book. Anyone trying to grapple with the rise of China and the struggle for political liberalization there simply must read it." - Quadrant
"Based on broad, accurate scholarship, this distinguished work provides a searching synthesis of a number of important themes in early twentieth-century Chinese history." - Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University "A vivid account of how Chinese revolutionaries and intellectuals awakened China during the Republican Revolution... Initially, Fitzgerald offers an interesting and detailed analysis of the process of awakening China ... illustrated through contemporary developments in the fields of art and architecture, museums and medicine, fiction and essays, journalism and propaganda, political institutions, and mass organization... Second, an important feature of Fitzgerald's book is that the author develops a comparison between the Communists and the Nationalists, between Sun and Mao in their efforts to awaken China... Third, not only does this book add to an understanding of the politics of mass awakening, it also contributes to a broader understanding of Chinese art history, ethics, and ethnography during the first three decades of this century." - Journal of Asian Studies "This is a brilliant book. Anyone trying to grapple with the rise of China and the struggle for political liberalization there simply must read it." - Quadrant
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