China's Revolutions in the Modern World by Rebecca E. Karl - 9781788735599

Verso Books

China's Revolutions in the Modern WorldA Brief Interpretive History\nAuthor(s): Rebecca E. Karl\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Verso Books\nISBN-13: 9781788735599, 978-1788735599\nSynopsis\nChina's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's \""great rejuvenation,\"" a story narrated as the return of China to its \""rightful\"" place at the center of the world.\n\nIn China's Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China's contemporary emergence is best seen not as a \""return,\"" but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today's capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class.