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How do we take into account China's momentous - and almost wholly unanticipated - global surge? And exactly what does it mean, for all of us in the Western world and for humanity's future? Talking with these essential and exciting questions, these 48 penetrating lectures by Professor Baum bring to brilliant life the individual challenges, the titanic political upheavals, and the amazing acceleration of China's modern rebirth. Offering multilevel understanding into one of the very most incredible real-life dramas of modern background, the lectures weave mutually the richly diverse advancements and sociopolitical currents that created the China you now read about in the news. You'll get an in depth knowledge of all the center incidents in China's hundred years of stunning change, including the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the Republican time and civil wars, the "Great Leap Forward", the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao economical "miracle". Throughout, Professor Baum discloses highly strange details that enrich the cinematic sweep of the storyplot. For example, you'll learn about the Religious warlord who baptized his soldiers with a flame hose, the odd kidnapping of Chiang K'ai-shek, and Professor Baum's own smuggling of top-secret documents out of Taiwan. A center strength of the lectures is that they make sense of the remarkable events of the storyplot by getting deeply at what underlay them, culturally, socially, and historically - giving you with a nuanced knowledge of the forces moving China's modern introduction. Bringing alive the ardent reinvention of China with profound discernment and humanity, they portray the confounding, majestic, heart-rending, and visionary history of a modern giant.
