ขาย [BnB] Emperor's China, People's China (Signed Copy) by Myra Roper (Condition: Acceptable) 6Shd ราคาที่ดีที่สุด

Format: Hardcover Condition: Acceptable Few people have travelled more extensively throughout the People's Republic over so long a period as Myra Roper, who has been a regular visitor to China over the last 23 years. She has talked with men and women in all walks of life from peasant revolutionaries, guerillas and 'Long Marchers' to the Foreign Minister, a leading 'national capitalist and brother of the last emperor of the Manchu Dynasty. Many such meetings are recorded in a series of personal narratives interspersed within the body of the text. In Emperor's China, People's China, Myra Roper turns her considerable narrative skills to the historical development of modern China from the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the time of the first significant intrusion of the West, to the changing scene today. As in her other writings she provides an overview not only of the events but also the social outlook, the personalities and the human condition of that time-span. One of her central interests is the transition from the highly centralized dynastic structure of traditional China to the proletarian China of today. The transition it is argued is marked as much by continuity as by radical change; the continuity that comes from the Chinese sense of their ethnic identity, from the social and 'spiritual' values embodied by Confucian- ism and above all from the knowledge that ultimately all renewal must come from the common people rather than a privileged elite. The treatment is thematic; Parts 1 and 2 narrate the events of the transition from Emperor's to People's China; Part 3 expands on China and the World; Part 4 on the Pea- sant Revolutionary Tradition and Part 5 on the Role of the Intellectuals. And the role of women is noted throughout. Myra Roper has a sharp eye for the ironies and incongruities of history and writes in a lively style. The book provides an excellent general introduction to the history of modern China. ISBN:9780858592407