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Modern Chinese History
: External Threats: War and Imperialism
Editor in Chief:
Lisa Tran, California State University–Fullerton
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1. Setting the Stage: Late Imperial Tradition
2. Conquest, Consolidation, and Expansion: The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty
3. The High Qing: Peace and Prosperity in the Eighteenth Century
4. External Threats: War and Imperialism
5. Internal Threats: Corruption and Rebellion
6. Saving the Qing: Defensive Modernization and Its Critics
7. China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Revolution and Its Discontents
8. The Fragile Republic: The Challenges Facing the New China
9. The Guomindang: Experiments in State Building
10. The Chinese Communist Party: Rural Revolution
11. The Years of War: Foreign Invasion and Civil War
12. Socialist Construction: Industrialization and Collectivization
13. Politics in Command: Revolution and Normalization
14. Economics in Command: The Reform Era
15. China in the Twentieth Century
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