Making China Modern pdf

Клаус Мюльхан (родился 19 августа 1963 г.) - немецкий историк и китаевед, профессор и вице-президент Берлинского свободного университета. В 2009 году он был награжден премией Джона К. Фэрбэнка за свою книгу «Уголовное правосудие в Китае: история». В 1993 году Мюльхан получил степень магистра китаеведения в Свободном университете Берлина, где он также работал научным сотрудником с 1993 по 2002 год на кафедре китаеведения. В 1998 году получил докторскую степень. в китаеведении.

Making China Modern pdf Клаус Мюльхан

It is tempting to attribute China’s recent ascendance to changes in political leadership and economic policy. Making China Modern teaches otherwise. Moving beyond the standard framework of Cold War competition and national resurgence, Klaus Mühlhahn situates twenty-first-century China in the nation’s long history of creative adaptation. In the mid-eighteenth century, when the Qing Empire reached the height of its power, China dominated a third of the world’s population and managed its largest economy. But as the Opium Wars threatened the nation’s sovereignty from without and the Taiping Rebellion ripped apart its social fabric from within, China found itself verging on free fall. A network of family relations, economic interdependence, institutional innovation, and structures of governance allowed citizens to regain their footing in a convulsing world. In China’s drive to reclaim regional centrality, its leaders looked outward as well as inward, at industrial developments and international markets offering new ways to thrive. This dynamic legacy of overcoming adversity and weakness is apparent today in China’s triumphs―but also in its most worrisome trends. Telling a story of crisis and recovery, Making China Modern explores the versatility and resourcefulness that matters most to China’s survival, and to its future possibilities.