Autorentext
Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004). His book China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (2014) won the 2014 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, and was a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. His book China's War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival was named a Book of the Year in the Economist and the Financial Times. He is a presenter for BBC Radio 3's arts and ideas programme Free Thinking.

Klappentext

This Very Short Introduction addresses the themes, developments, and controversies that have shaped Modern China. Covering a range of social issues, Rana Mitter provides a contemporary view of the world's most populous nation, with a new acknowledgement of China's changing foreign policy, and its unique engagement with the internet.

Inhalt

• 1: What is modern China?

• 2: The old order and the new

• 3: Making China modern

• 4: Is Chinese society modern?

• 5: Is China's economy modern?

• 6: Is Chinese culture modern?

• 7: Brave new China?