title: Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
author:  R. Keith Schoppa 
description: <P> A study of the history of modern China from about 1780 to the present, <B><I>Revolution and its Past</B></I> explores the traditional identities of China under the "dragon," the symbol of traditional Chinese civilization, while examining the fundamental aspects and developments of the Chinese past. Though comprehensive in scope, it has the underlying theme of "identities." Identity is at the heart of history because actions of individuals and states depend largely on how they perceive themselves and how they are perceived by those with whom they interact. </P> <P> In China's period of slow decline from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century and throughout its twentieth century revolution, one of the most important problems facing individual Chinese and China as a nation was choosing appropriate political, social, cultural, and economic identities as contexts and situations changed. </P> <P> Above all, this is a story of people whose choices propelled modern Chinese history in the various directions it took. It is a dramatic tale, often bloody and violent, alternately soaring with hope and plunging into bleak despair, compelling our interest as the "heirs of the dragon" struggle to find their identity in the modern world. </P>
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  Origins of the
  Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
  Translated from the French by Muriel
  
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  Chinese Revolution
  1915-1949
  
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  Origins of the
  Chinese Revolution
  1915-1949
  Lucicn Bianco
  Translated from the French by Muriel Bell
  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
  London : Oxford University Press
  
  To the memory of Graham ?ec\
  Origins of the Chinese Revolution, igi$-ig4g was originally published
  in French in 1967 under the title Les Origines de la revolution
  chinoise, igi$-ig4g, © 1967 by Editions Gallimard. The present
  edition has been revised by the author in a number of matters
  of detail and presentation.
  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
  London
  : Oxford University Press
  © 1971 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
  Printed in the United States of America
  Cloth isbn 0-8047-0746-4
  Paper isbn 0-8047-0827-4
  This translati