china's republic

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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankChina’sRepublicTwenty-firstcenturyChinaisemergingfromdecadesofwarandrevo-lutionintoanewera.Yetthepaststillhauntsthepresent.TheidealsoftheChineseRepublic,whichwasfoundedalmostacenturyagoafter2,000yearsofimperialrule,stillresonatetodayasmodernChinaedgestowardopen

2、nessanddemocracy.InavividportrayaloftheeraoftheRepublic,DianaLarytracesitshistoryfromitsbeginningsin1912,throughtheNanjingdecade,thewarlorderaandthecivilwarwiththePeople’sLiberationArmy,whichendedindefeatin1949.Thereafter,inanunusualexcursionfromtraditionalhistoriesoftheperiod,shecon-sider

3、showtheRepublichascontinuedtosurviveinTaiwan,comparingitsongoingprosperitywiththeeconomicandsocialdeclineoftheCom-munistMainlandintheMaoyears.ThusthehistoryoftheRepubliccrossesthatoftwentieth-centuryChina.Thebook,whichisintendedasanintroductiontotheperiodforstudentsandgeneralreaders,isenha

4、ncedwithbiographiesofkeyprotagonists,Chineseproverbs,lovestories,poetryandafeastofillustrations.DLisProfessorofHistory,affiliatedwiththeCentreofChineseResearch,InstituteofAsianResearch,attheUniversityofBritishColumbia.NewApproachestoAsianHistoryThisdynamicnewseriespublishesbooksonthe

5、milestonesinAsianhistory,thosethathavecometodefineparticularperiodsorthatmarkturningpointsinthepolitical,cultural,andsocialevolutionoftheregion.Thebooksareintendedtobeusedintheclassroomasintroductionsforstudents.Theyarewrittenbyscholars,whosecredentialsarewellestablishedintheirparticularfiel

6、dsandwhohave,inmanycases,taughtthesubjectacrossanumberofyears.China’sRepublicDianaLaryUniversityofBritishColumbiaCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesof

7、AmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521842563©DianaLary2006Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypa