The Aftermath of the Chinese Nationalist Revolution

by Kathlyn Gay

Book Overview

'For the first time in history, an inglorious bondage is transformed into inspiring freedom.'' with these words, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen spoke to the hopes of the Chinese people, who just the year before, in the uprising of 1911, had thrown off more than two hundred years of oppressive rule under the Manchus (Qing dynasty). Yet in the aftermath of the nationalist revolution, the nation was thrown into decades of turmoil. Years of struggle...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822576015
• ISBN13: 9780822576013
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12