Katalog der Bibliothek des Instituts für Sinologie (LMU)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identities -- Chinese and Manchus -- The Opium War and the treaty system : challenges to Chinese identity -- An age of rebellion : defiance of and commitments to traditional Chinese identities -- The power of traditional cultural identity : Chinese reactions to continuing threats -- The devastating nineties : destroying traditional identities -- The revolutionary Manchus -- Selecting identities : the early Republic -- Constructing a new cultural identity : the May Fourth Movement -- Drawing the sword of opposition : identity increasingly politicized -- Revolution in retreat : the Nanjing Decade -- Revolution reborn : the Communists in the 1930s -- A rising clash of national identities : China and Japan, the 1920s and 1930s -- The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Toward daybreak : struggling for China's identity, 1945-1949 -- Paths to the future -- Coming unglued -- Death dance : the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- The end of communism -- The dawn of a new century -- A question of identity : the Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s.