A Concise Reader on Modern Chinese History

Author: Huang Yingqian
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book uses various materials and examples to accurately illustrate the development of modern Chinese history. It clearly points out that modern China was a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, where the Chinese nation suffered dual oppression from imperialist aggression and feudal rule. People lived a hard and miserable life, and the country lagged behind and was bullied. At the critical juncture of the nation's crisis, the Chinese bourgeoisie successively launched the Self-Strengthening Movement and the Xinhai Revolution, striving to lead China towards capitalism, but all of them were met with heavy setbacks. Only the Communist Party of China, upholding the people's will, proposed a revolutionary program of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism to save the country and its people, guiding China towards the path of socialism. The new socialist China is the choice of history and the choice of the people. The book fully takes into account the of foreign teaching work, presenting a concise and clear narrative with appropriate detail and omission. The first part mainly explains the basic outline of social changes in modern China, while the second part, under the framework of "One China," combines the realities of modern Chinese society to focus on the historical of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese.