Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword -- Understanding China's revolution -- Part I: Late imperial China: growth and change, 1800-1895 -- The Manchu rulers' outlook from Peking -- Some theoretical approaches -- The growth of commerce before the treaty period -- Problems within Chinese society -- The western intrusion -- Efforts at modernization -- Part II: The transformation of the late imperial order, 1895-1911 -- Reform and reaction -- The genesis of the revolution of 1911 -- Part III: The era of the first Chinese republic, 1912-1949 -- The early Chinese Republic and its problems -- The new culture and Sino-liberal education -- The nationalist revolution and the first KMT-CCP united front -- Nationalists and communists, 1927-1937 -- The war of resistance and civil war, 1937-1949 -- Part IV: The Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1985 -- Creating the new state -- The great leap forward and its consequences -- Mao's great proletarian cultural revolution -- New directions: Deng Hsiao-p'ing's reforms -- Perspectives.…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Billie Holiday, "Strange fruit" ; Woody Guthrie, "This land is your land" ; Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger, "We shall overcome" ; Bob Dylan, "Masters of war" ; Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam" -- pt. 2. 1965-1973. …”