1972/12/01 by Joseph W. Esherick · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Chinese history and philosophy #China #State (computer science) #Apologetics #Political science #Economic history #History #Ancient history #Development economics #Law #Economics
paper · doi:10.1080/14672715.1972.10406305
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The classic works on modern China—by Harold Isaacs, Edgar Snow, Jack Beiden, even Mao Tse-tung himself—have all led us to believe that the revolutionary ferment which surged through China in the twentieth century was the result of rural impoverishment, economic stagnation and governmental weakness and decay. All of them stressed the crucial role of Western and Japanese imperialism which had reduced China to such a sorry state in the first half of the twentieth century.