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Joining the Modern World

Inside & Outside of China

By Wang Gungwu
December 2000
Singapore University Press
ISBN: 9810244886
159 Pages
$35.50 paper original


This book contains a series of lectures about China and her people presented at various locations, including the Ronald Reagan Foundation in Washington DC, Stanford University, Australian National University, and many other sites. The author focuses on the past 100 years of the Chinese people and government. He discuses the Chinese Revolution and the overseas Chinese; a single Chinese diaspora; Hong Kong and an Ambivalent Modernity; Shanghai-Hong Kong linkage; transforming the trading Chinese; Chinese Values & Memories of modern war; and modern work cultures & the Chinese.

China; Politics; Sociology