This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. The author’s groundbreaking work provides new insight provided by newly uncovered sources explaining how China came to be what it is today from a cultural and sociological perspective, in a historical mode.

1. Pre-20th Century China.- 2. 1900-1912: The Era of Transformation.- 3. 1912-1927: Disarrangements of Power and New Intellectual Trends.- 4. 1927-1937: The First Decade of the National Government.- 5. 1937-1949: From the War of Resistance to Civil War.- 6. 1949-1953: A Confrontation Between two regimes. 

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of China’s twentieth century that is richly informed by its valent fields of political economy and cultural studies. Western readers' knowledge of China’s twentieth century remains based on pioneering research of modern scholars such as Fairbank and Jonathan Spence. In recent years, however, it is rare to see a complete history of China spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which also includes the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This book contributes new narrative and perspective to this span of history. Now, as the Sino-US trade conflict makes dramatic impact on a post-COVID global economy, readers have the need for a fresh understanding of how China came to be what it is today. The author’s groundbreaking work provides new insight provided by newly uncovered sources explaining how China came to be what it is today from a cultural and sociological perspective, in a historical mode.Lü Peng is an eminent art historian, historiographer, critic, and curator. Born in 1956, he served as an associate professor for his alma mater, the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, in Hangzhou. He is now a professor at the Macao University of Science and Technology, as well as at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is Doctor of Letters from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.

Provides rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China Contributes new narrative and perspective to this span of history Presents new insight explaining how China came to be what it is today from a cultural and sociological perspective