Making China Modern pdf

克劳斯·穆尔翰（Klaus Mühlhahn，1963 年 8 月 19 日－）是德国历史学家和汉学家，现任柏林自由大学教授和副校长。 他的著作《中国刑事司法：一段历史》于 2009 年获得了约翰·K·费正清奖。 1993 年，Mühlhahn 获得柏林自由大学汉学硕士学位，并于 1993 年至 2002 年在汉学系担任研究助理。 1998 年，他获得了博士学位。 在汉学。

Making China Modern pdf 克劳斯·米尔翰

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.