From Mao to Now
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Who was Deng Xiaoping?
Deng’s first revolutionary experiences were as a student in France in the 1920s, when he developed a lasting friendship with a fellow radical youth named ...
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The Future
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Is China bent on world domination?
Although Americans perceived the Soviet Union as posing the greatest Cold War-era military challenge, they also periodically feared a “China ...
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Imperial China
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
What were the main early dynasties?
A standard way to break up Chinese history is to start with 221 b.c.e., the year that Qin Shi Huang transformed various small states into ...
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Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Who was Sun Yat-sen?
Sun Yat-sen has been hailed as the founding father of the ROC and likened to George Washington in more than a few Chinese textbooks. Sun has the rare ...
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Schools of Thought
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Who was Confucius?
Confucius (551–479 b.c.e.) was a teacher and philosopher who lived during the Zhou (Chou
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) Dynasty (1045–256 b.c.e.), in what is known as the Spring and ...
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US–China Misunderstandings
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
in China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
What is the most common thing Americans get wrong about China?
The preceding chapters have drawn attention to some important sources of US misunderstanding of Chinese realities. ...
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