John Fitzgerald, "Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution," (Stanford University Press, 1996)

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this century. Awakening of Modern China Rise of Modern China History China’s Historical Awakening Chinese Sovereignty and Independence China Waking Up Narrative Political Awakening in China Modern China and National Identity Historical Narrative of China’s Rise China’s Path to Sovereign Statehood Chinese People’s Political Awakening 20th Century Chinese History East Asian Studies Podcasts Chinese History Podcasts