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PDF: Rethinking Modern Chinese History: War and History

Download 21 times Source: www.mh.sinica.edu.tw // Topic: World War II Military File Size: 71.16 kb // Total of Page: 5 Page(s) Last download by DKosy Last download on: 1 week ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: The world view of China's Maoist era leaders had been shaped by the violence of. war. Despite the overwhelming importance of warfare in the history of ... Content Inside: Rethinking Modern Chinese History: War and History Parks M. Coble, University of Nebraska, USA Prepared for the International Conference on Rethinking Modern Chinese History, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, June 29-July 1, 2005 War defined the history of China from 1839 until 1949. In the 19th century a series of wars with foreign powersthe Opium War with Britain, the Arrow War with Britain and France, the Sino-French War, and the Sino-Japanese Warleft China weak; its sovereignty compromised; its self confidence as a Confucian civilization shattered. Although the scale of these wars was limited and the fighting often regional, the impact across China was universal. Far more devastating to the general populace, however, were the large scale domestic rebellions such as the Taiping (which left at least 20 million dead in its wake), the Nian rebellion, and the rebellions in the minority areas in Yunnan and the northwest. At centurys end, the