The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China - Couverture souple

Zheng, Xiaowei

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503601080 ISBN 13 : 9781503601086

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles.

Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.

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À propos de l'auteur

Xiaowei Zheng is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503601080
• ISBN 13: 9781503601086
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
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