Documenting China

Documenting China brings together a series of linked texts, each one chosen for its impact when first published, and which together chart the core developments in twentieth-century Chinese history. With extracts spanning the fields of philosophy, political science, gender studies, popular culture, literary history, neo-nationalist discourse, and international relations, the book challenges advanced language learners to elevate their reading ability to the level necessary for handling real primary sources in an unmediated way while deepening their understanding of Chinese politics, society, and culture. Each chapter is structured around crucial passages from a core historical text, each chapter begins with an introductory essay in English that provides context for fully understanding the text, suggested further readings, and a glossary of key terms.

Margaret Hillenbrand is university lecturer in modern Chinese and a fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford, and author of Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990. Chloe Starr is assistant professor of Asian theology at the Yale Divinity School, author of Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing, and coeditor of China and the Quest for Gentility: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class.

Preface

1. Cultural Reform

On Constructive Literary Revolution, Hu Shi

2. Social Reform

Excerpts from The Ladies' Journal

3. Reform and Revolution

The Three People's Principles, Sun Yat-sen

4. Rectification

Thoughts on March Eighth, Ding Ling

Wild Lilies, Wang Shiwei

5. Cultural Policy in the People's Republic

Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature, Mao Zedong

6. Total Reform

Excerpts from Red Flag

7. The Unreformed

On Family Background, Yu Luoke

8. Tiananmen, 1989

June Fourth - the True Story, Zhang Liang

9. The 1980s Enlightenment

River Elegy, Su Xiaokang et al.

10. Chinese Neo-Nationalism

China Can Say No, Song Qiang et al.

11. The Emergence of Civil Society

Building a Civil Society in China, Deng Zhenglai and Jin Yuejin

12. The New Left and the Critique of Consumerism

The Invisible Politics of Mass Culture, Dai Jinhua

13. Chinese Intellectuals and Christianity

A Sociological Commentary on the Phenomenon of "Cultural" Christians, Liu Xiaofeng

14. Taiwanese Identity

The Rising People, Hsu Hsin-liang

15. Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations

Excerpts from Strategies and Management

16. China's Peaceful Rise

The New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and the Future of Asia

The New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and Sino-US Relations, Zheng Bijian