Retelling China's Modern History

This book is the result of modern history research by Zhang Ming, a professor of history at Renmin University of China. This book is rich in information, rigorous in argumentation, and popular. This book provides new perspectives and helps us re-understand China's modern history. This book starts from the Sino-British trade, the Opium War, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Westernization Movement, the Chengxu Reform, and the Yihe Dynasty. Major historical events such as the Youth League Movement, the Wanqing New Deal, the Revolution of 1911, the Yuan Dynasty, the Beiyang Civil War, and the May Fourth Movement are all divided into special topics, which are thorough and vivid. This book integrates the basic views of the author's best-selling books "Xinhai: Shaking China" and "Beiyang Fission: Warlords and the May Fourth Movement". It is more systematic than the two books alone. It has very good academic and historical value.