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Features
An indispensable starting point for anyone who needs to quickly know the themes and controversies that have shaped modern China
Examines the history, politics, economy, and thriving cultural scene of contemporary China, and its relations with the wider world
Covers a range of social issues from the decline of footbinding and the position of women in society, to the influence of television and film, and the role of the overseas Chinese diaspora
Includes accounts of many prominent figures, such as the Communist leaders, the last emperors, and writers and artists
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series--over two million copies sold worldwide
Product Details
144 pages; 20 b/w halftones; 4-1/4 x 6-3/4
About the Author(s)
Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China , and A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (OUP, 2004), for which he won the title Times Higher Education Young Academic Author of the Year 2005. The book was also runner-up for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year prize, a finalist for the British Academy Book Prize, and named by Foreign Affairs as one of five "must-read" Notable Books on China. He presents and comments regularly on radio and television, and his reviews and essays have appeared in the Financial Times , History Today , and London Review of Books .