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The power of position : Beijing University, intellectuals, and Chinese political culture, 1898-1929 / Timothy B. Weston

Weston, Timothy B. [Verfasser] [1964-]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 325 pages)

Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 3

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index

978-0-520-92990-6 ; 0-520-92990-X ; 1-4175-2567-3 ; 978-1-4175-2567-6 ; 1-59734-828-7 ; 978-1-59734-828-7 ; 0-520-23767-6

LB 28440 LB 39465 LC 57440

Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals--from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be--how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest an.