Lost Opportunities: A Reassessment of China's Modernization Process

Author: Zuo Yuhhe
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Over 200 years, how have each of the historical opportunities for modernization been formed? What was China's attitude or response to these opportunities? How did China seize or miss these opportunities? What were the internal and external factors in seizing or missing these opportunities? What impact did seizing or missing these opportunities have on China at the time? If history could be hypothetically altered, what would China's wise response and ideal outcome have been? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. The author reexamines China's path to modernization and the significant historical events along this winding road from a new historical perspective. Some of the insights proposed by the author may offer valuable enlightenment to the Chinese people, prompting them to focus on and reflect upon the fate of their nation and the future of their country.