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China's Disaster: 1840-1949

General

  • Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, (New York: Random House, 1987), pp. 3-30 [extended excerpts are online]
  • The Hai-lu, a Chinese traveler's account of the West in the 18th century.
  • One China, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 [At The Atlantic]
    Coverage by the magazine of China in the 20th century.

Rejection of the West

Government Efforts to Reform

Religion and Rebellion

Modernization: The May 4th Movement

  • Yan Phou Lee: When I Went to School in China, 1880
    A late Confucian education - and what was attacked by the May 4th Movement.
  • Luxun Two Selections from His Writing
  • Luxun Lu Hsun (1881-1936): Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, Translated by
    Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, full text of 20 stories. [At Eldritch Press]
    A leading May 4th Movement writer.

Nationalism

Early Communism

The Chinese in America

  • California: Anti-Coolie Act, 1862 [At Drug Library]
    "An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor, and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26, 1862"
  • San Francisco Chinatown Opium Den – 1870's [Image][At Drug Library]
  • Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields - 1860 [Image][At Drug Library]
  • Chinatown Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library]
    This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
  • Albert S. Evans: A Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the Golden State, c, 1871.

 

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