From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement

By Sheng Hu

From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement, a major work by Hu Sheng, is the fruit of years of research on modern Chinese history. The book is written in five parts, with 27 chapters in all, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835119505
• ISBN13: 9780835119504
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
• Length: 581 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

History from the Chinese side. Unfiltered.

Both of Hu Sheng's histories, this one as well as his classic "Imperialism and Chinese Politics", provide badly-needed purely Chinese perspective on modern Chinese history and China's struggle with the West from late Qing dynasty onward. Hu Sheng's attack is powerful, fresh, insightful, startling, and, yes, appropriately angry. The anecdotes and sources, taken from Chinese language histories, are extremely valuable, and largely unavailable in English language histories of China. Do not be put off with Hu Sheng's political affiliations. His views are shared by Chinese across the spectrum, all over the world. In a world in which establishmentarian Western scholars have so badly clouded, neutered,inculcated and "made safe" the history of China, and the Chinese side of the story, Hu Sheng's analysis is a treasure.