A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World by Rana Mitter
Oxford University Press; First Edition | July 1, 2004 | English | ISBN: 0192803417 | 384 pages | PDF | 10 MB
China today is poised to play a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation was very different. In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern world.
Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history.