Chinese Book Report

A detailed Summary of Chinese Book Report

(Note: This book is not described in full depth and detail but is just explained in a very general way, therefore Mahmoud Abdelkader uses The Modernization of China by Gilbert Rozman (Editor) excerpts to support his views)

The book China Since 1945, written by author Stewart Ross, opens in a description of the Chinese Empire in the 1900's. There it describes the terrain of the Chinese lands and thoroughly states the fact of having the Great Wall of China to keep out the barbarians at 221 B.C. The author uses a very admiring tone of the Chinese Empire and seems to think it's one of the very few best empires that have ever formed. In fact, Rozman states, ' ...the cultural and scientific achievements of the Chinese had been immense, including the invention of paper, printing and gunpowder, and the creation of the most exquisite paintings and by most "Empire Critics" China was one of the best Civilizations around.

The author starts the book by Revolution and disintegration incident that happened in 1911, where the B

The writing of the book looks as if it is directed to any American who is interested in China's modern history. The book is written by an American author who directs his views to another American. He directs China from Chinese eyes. He doesn't exactly point it out that there is conflict and doesn't show any biased thoughts or actions. He simply just states facts and doesn't try to criticize it through Chinese eyes, but directs his views as if his research team was the one that was having trouble figuring something out. This may be unclear but I'll state an example. "The team didn't know how many millions of people died in the Land Reform, but we're pretty sure it's around 35%." It is explained that the cruelty of the Chinese during land reforms are extremely harsh, for the landlords were taken from their lands, leaving the warlords to take the peons and control the economy. Not 35% died, but about 20% did, by the Grolier Encyclopedia (2000). The author extremely exaggerated the number too highly to show cruelty but obviously and neutral or un-biased person will bluntly state the real fact, so that leaves us with one thing, the author obviously is biased.

The theme also parallels to the Chinese as a once superior race to the disgrace of turning into Communists. It shows the decline and fall of the Empire and many of its disadvantages and advantages. Ross describes the Chinese as a race once full of nothing but resources and was heavily dependent on to almost how is it to acquire the pure hatred that we have for Russians to the Chinese.

The author's view toward Chinese views is very critical and then goes to analysis of the book, but supports China. In fact, the way that this was looked upon, is that this is actually a bunch

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Approximate Word count = 1182
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: History