China World History Tour Preview
The rise of China is remaking the world we live in.
The rise of China in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century is undoubtedly one of the greatest developments remaking the world we live in.
Klaus Mühlhahn, Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
Making sense of the rise of China is central to living in tune with the mode of a changing world. Making room for modern China is fundamental to achieving peace, prosperity and harmony in that changing world. But making sense of China is made difficult by too many stories of China - in the news media, in politics, in culture and in history - that close off China from the story of the modern, global world.
The China World History Tour helps you free your mind of those stories. It will open up new perspectives on China in history, and the role of this ‘civilization-state’ in our shared changing world. Welcome to the China World History Tour.
In this post I provide a preview of the China World History Tour over the next eight weeks.
Each Saturday I will bring you a history book recommendation.
Each Wednesday I will offer a deep dive post for paid subscribers. These deep dives follow one book through the whole eight-week tour. They will take you in chronological order through the four major periods of modern Chinese history in the highly recommended Klaus Mühlhahn, Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping (2019):
The Rise and Fall of Qing China 1644 to 1900
The Chinese Revolutions of 1900 to 1948
Remaking China through Socialist Transformation and the Cultural Revolution, 1949 to 1976
China Rising from 1976, Deng Xiaoping’s Great Transformation to Contemporary China.
The detailed preview of the China World History Tour including a x-minute audio guide to overall story of Making China Modern, is below the paywall.
I can also announce that next week I will offer another round of live calls to paid subscribers. Let’s look back over the American World Tour together as the World tries to make sense of a new America. Details below the paywall.
