Perspectives on Modern China

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"The following paper examines four topics that are essential to understanding Chinese history. The paper examines Chinese-American relations; the impact of the May 1919 student uprising; and the reasons why the KMT gave way to the CCP. The paper concludes with an examination of some of the indispensable writers of the first half of the twentieth century.

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"The humiliating Chinese defeats in the Opium War to the British presaged a period in which European powers began to carve up China into veritable fiefdoms. In the middle nineteenth century, the United States was not yet a great power, much less a super-power, but it too had a keen interest in tapping the "China market" (Hunt, 5). After 1842, it became apparent that the Chinese could be coerced into concessions by aggressive western nations - including America."

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