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Author: Min Mao
Publisher:
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781543136586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is Selected topic 7 of the book entitled The Revival of China. The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the thirty-eight years of Republic of China in the mainland.
Author: MAO Min
Publisher: Mao Min
Published:
Total Pages: 681
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is Selected topic 7 of the Selected Topics from The Revival of China. The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the thirty-eight years of the Republic of China in the mainland. It covers the Xinhai Revolution, overthrowing of the Qing dynasty, establishment of the Republic of China, Warlord rulings of China, cooperation between GMD and CPC, unification of China by JIANG Jie-shi, encircle and suppress the Red Army led by CPC, anti-Japanese fights after the September 18th accident, the Anti Japanese War, decisive battles with CPC, and withdrawing from the mainland to Taiwan Island. In the Appendix，situation of Republic of China in Taiwan is described.
Author: Min MAO
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-25
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781976731488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is Selected topic 7 of the Selected Topics from The Revival of China. The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the thirty-eight years of the Republic of China in the mainland. It covers the Xinhai Revolution, overthrowing of the Qing dynasty, establishment of the Republic of China, Warlord rulings of China, cooperation between GMD and CPC, unification of China by JIANG Jie-shi, encircle and suppress the Red Army led by CPC, anti-Japanese fights after the September 18th accident, the Anti Japanese War, decisive battles with CPC, and withdrawing from the mainland to Taiwan Island. In the Appendix，situation of Republic of China in Taiwan is described.
Author: Diana Lary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-08
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1139461885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.
Author: Lowell Dittmer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0520295986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. China’s relation to Taiwan has been in constant contention since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 and the creation of the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) exile regime on the island two months later. The island’s autonomous sovereignty has continually been challenged, initially because of the KMT’s insistence that it continue to represent not just Taiwan but all of China—and later because Taiwan refused to cede sovereignty to the then-dominant power that had arisen on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. One thing that makes Taiwan so politically difficult and yet so intellectually fascinating is that it is not merely a security problem, but a ganglion of interrelated puzzles. The optimistic hope of the Ma Ying-jeou administration for a new era of peace and cooperation foundered on a landslide victory by the Democratic Progressive Party, which has made clear its intent to distance Taiwan from China’s political embrace. The Taiwanese are now waiting with bated breath as the relationship tautens. Why did détente fail, and what chance does Taiwan have without it? Contributors to this volume focus on three aspects of the evolving quandary: nationalistic identity, social economy, and political strategy.
Author: Andreas Fulda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0429828551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective, the book compares and contrasts the political development trajectory in the three regions from the early 1970s—from the election-driven liberalisation in Taiwan from 1969, the Democracy Wall Movement in mainland China in 1978, and the top-down political reforms of Governor Patten in Hong Kong after 1992—until the present day. More specifically, it sets out the different strategies and tactics political activists have taken, assesses the lessons activists have learned from both successes and failures and considers how these experiences have informed their struggles for democracy. Importantly, the book demonstrates that at the same time, throughout the period and earlier, the Chinese Communist Party has been making use of "sharp power" —penetrating the political and information environments in Western democracies to manipulate debate and suppress dissenters living both inside and outside China—in order to strengthen its domestic position. The book discusses the nature of this sharp power, explores the rise of the security state within mainland China and examines the effectiveness of the approach, arguing that in Taiwan and Hong Kong the approach has been counterproductive, with civil society, campaigns for greater democracy and the flourishing of religion in part stimulated by the Chinese Communist Party's sharp power practices.
Author: Hsiu-Huei Wang
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783107626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign occupation, Taiwan has a unique history. Taiwan, Art and Civilization sheds light on Taiwan's beautiful scenery as well as its colorful history in the form of a true initiatory trip. Through magnificent illustrations, Taiwan reveals its secret beauty, its fauna and flora intertwined with its unique architecture. Home of the traditional and the modern, the gorgeous island is also the home of a very dynamic artistic scene. One thus fully grasps why the Portuguese named her Ilha Formosa, beautiful island.
Author: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 1072
ISBN-13: 0231537549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature. These texts illuminate Asia's experience with modernization, colonialism, and postcolonialism; the character of Taiwan's Cold War and post–Cold War cultural production; gender and environmental issues; indigenous movements; and the changes and challenges of the digital revolution. Taiwan's complex history with Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese colonization; strategic geopolitical position vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the United States; and status as a hub for the East-bound circulation of technological and popular-culture trends make the nation an excellent case study for a richer understanding of East Asian and modern global relations.
Author: Denny Roy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0231159005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through a careful consideration of historical factors and raw data, Denny Roy examines the benefits and consequences of a more politically, economically, and militarily potent China. Since China's sphere of influence encroaches on the autonomy of regional states, its attempts to increase its security have diminished the security of its neighbours.
Author: John Franklin Copper
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1461672198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taiwan, an island located off the east coast of southern China, is the largest piece of territory under the jurisdiction of the "nation" known officially as the Republic of China. Constant debate over whether Taiwan is its own sovereign state, part of the Republic of China, or part of the People's Republic of China has been going on for years. With Chinese leaders in the People's Republic of China rejecting Taiwan's legal separation and vowing that they will resolve the "Taiwan issue" by military force if necessary and most citizens of Taiwan opposing unification with China in the short run, it would appear that Taiwan faces some tough decisions ahead. The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China) offers insight into Taiwan's situation through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a map, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, places, events, political parties, and institutions, as well as major political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of this island country. Whether or not Taiwan joins the People's Republic of China or gains its independence, Taiwan's outcome is of the utmost importance, and this reference provides the necessary information to understand its state of affairs.
