China's Revolutions in the Modern WorldSurveying a dozen transformative episodes across Chinese history, from Taiping to the Chinese Dream of Xi Jinping, Rebecca Karl traces the emergence of mass politics, the worlds they sought to construct, and their dialectical relationship to counter revolution. For Karl, Chinas revolutions have, since the mid nineteenth century, raised questions about and helped clarify what modern China was to be, as a geography and territory, a polity, a