Simon & Schuster, 2009. — 334 p. ISBN13: 978-1-4391-4938-6. ISBN10: 1-4391-4938-0 Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life under house arrest. An occasional detail about...
Canberra: ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, 2012. — xx, 316 p. China Story Yearbook is produced by the australian Centre in the World in collaboration with the danwei media Group in Beijing, a research organization that has been collecting and collating internet and media information in and on China for CiW and this project since 2010. The chapters are arranged thematically...
Canberra: Australian centre on China in the world ANU, 2013. — xxix, 459 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9873655-3-8 Is rising China becoming ‘civilised’ or is it becoming a civilising force? Analysts of Chinese foreign policy have long grappled with this question. During the mid-1990s, for instance, the American analyst Denny Roy described China as a ‘hegemon on the horizon’, a rising power...
Routledge, 2010. — 280 p. — (China Policy 17). — ISBN10: 0415837855; ISBN13: 978-0415837859. The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance. This consisted of six weeks of massive pro-democracy...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. — 312 p. — eISBN 9780231528191. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold war-the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administration's policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious,...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. — xlii, 532 p.: ill. — ISBN: 9780674976870. Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China’s new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by...
Routledge, 2006. — 247 p. The Chinese Army Today is a completely unique and comprehensive study of all elements of the Chinese military, focusing on its ground forces to a degree not found in any other contemporary works. In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army that had been underway for twenty years increased in intensity and...
I.B. Taurus, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-1784533229. Xi Jinping happens to be both the President of People’s Republic of China and also the Secretary of the ruling Communist Party. Besides, he holds the position of the Chairman, Central Military Commission. This book offers an insight into the rise of this leader and also the current issues faced by modern China. The author...
I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018. — 162 p. — ISBN: 978-1-788313-28-3. China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In 2017 Xi Jinping became part of the constitution - an honour not seen...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — ix;321 p. — ISBN: 0-19-924406-5 During 1957 and 1958 Mao was seized by a vision that the Chinese economy could develop rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on intuition and mass spontaneity. As a consequence, he single-handedly launched a colossal mobilization campaign called the Great Leap Forward, which featured many radical policy...
Fernwood Publishing-Zed Books, 2006. — 185 p. Chronology Map of China Preface: what does Tiananmen mean? Making sense: what is ‘China’? Living history: what was Maoism? Reform: Mao is dead, long live Mao! Brave new world: reform and openness Winners and losers: reactions to reform China in the world today Suggested reading
Hoover instituute press, 1987. - 248 p. The framework of Beijing foreign policy Issues in dispute: China`s assistance, the USSR nd Campuchea Issues in dispute: territorial conflicts and the overseas China Decisionmaking: politics, model and process The war International implications
Grove Press. — New York. 1986. — 1370 p. ISBN: 978-0-8021-9615-6. The Wind of Revolution. Witch — hunt. Interval Before Storm. The Red Guards. The Detention House. Solitary Confinement. Interrogation. The January Revolution and Military Control. Party Factions. Persecution Continued. My Brother s Confession. A Kind of Torture. Release. My Struggle for Justice. Where is Meiping?...
International Institute of Social History, 2008. — 15 p. Colorful propaganda posters have accompanied almost every event or development that took place in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since its founding in 1949. These posters were intended to mobilize, inform, congratulate, inspire, instruct, or appease the people. The accessibility of the poster message for the large...
Brill, 2016. — 278 p. — ISBN10: 9004319204; ISBN13: 978-9004319202. The meanings of disease have undergone such drastic changes with the introduction of modern Western medicine into China during the last two hundred years that new discourses have been invented to theorize illness, redefine health, and reconstruct classes and genders. As a consequence, medical literature is...
Lndon & New York: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. — xiv; 207 p. ISBN13: 978-0-415-58456-2 (hbk); ISBN13: 978-0-203-83111-3 (ebk) The book traces the development of Xinjiang -from the collapse of the Qing Empire in the early twentieth century to the present - and argues that there is a largely complementary relationship between China's Xinjiang ,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 318 p. — (Asian Voices). — ISBN10: 0742566730; ISBN13: 978-0742566736. This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 272 p. Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full development as a largely civilian force...
New Yoprk: Walker Books, 2010. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0802777686; ISBN13: 978-0802777683 "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of...
New York - Abingdon: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. — xvi, 291 p. ISBN 0-203-48294-8Master e-book ISBN This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its...
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. 456 p. ISBN: 0-226-98260-2 part one: the origin of the 1989 student movement. China’s State-Society Relations and Their Changes during the 1980s. Intellectual Elites and the 1989 Movement. Economic Reform, University Expansion, and Student Discontents. The Decline of the System for Controlling Students in Universities. On the Eve...
Portfolio / Penguin, 2025. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-059-354-4648. The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world. On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world’s most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when...
Bombay - New Delhi: Asia Publishing House, 1970. — ix, 260 p. — ISBN: 021098192X. In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s...
St. Martin’s Press, 2018. — 304 p. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--not to mention their love affair with food, karaoke, and travel. Set primarily in the Eastern 2nd tier city of Suzhou...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. — xv, 343 p. — ISBN: 9780190866075. I undertook this study to try to answer these questions for myself and to help others make sense of the seeming inconsistencies and ambiguities in Chinese policy today. Sifting through all of the fastchanging, contradictory, and occasionally misleading information that is available on China to...
Transl. from French W.J.F. Jenner. — London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0233963618. The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist...
New York: Ecco, HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. — xlvii, 763 p.: il. — ISBN: 978006166116. No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enormous revolts, shifting social power...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 454 p. Over the past three decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth and a fascinating transformation of its industry. However, much of this success is the result of industrial imitation and China's continuing success now relies heavily on its ability to strengthen its indigenous innovation capability. In this book, Xiaolan Fu...
The foreword written by William Joseph. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. — xxxiv, 380 p. — ISBN: 9780804713696. Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution...
London: Victor Gollancz, 1946. — 290 p. Fulfillment of a promice On coalition Government. By Mao Tse-Tung The Basic Demands of the Chinese People The International and the Domestic Situation Two Courses in the Anti-Japanese War The Crux of the China problem. History Along a Tortuous Path. The people's War. Two Battle Fronts. The Policy of the Kungchantang Journey of the North....
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 416 p. Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. - 372 p. ISBN 0–19–280734–X (Pbk.) 978–0–19–280734–2 (Pbk.) Where is China heading in the twenty-first century? Recent curtailments of liberty, such as the new "cyberwall" prohibiting internet users from reaching pro-democracy websites, has dimmed the hopes of many that China might be entering a new era of freedom on the heels of rapid...
PublicAffairs, 2010. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1586487140. On September 30, 2006, gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it offers a straightforward summit — a warm-up...
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. — 376 p.: ill. — eISBN 9780520963641. Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of Mao's famous campaign against snail fever. Using newly available archives, Miriam Gross documents how economic, political, and cultural realities led to grassroots resistance. Nonetheless, the...
Chandos, 2015. — 208 p. This book is intended to provide the narratives and analytics of China’s spatial (dis)integration. Indeed, the Chinese nation is far too large and spatially complicated and diversified to be misinterpreted. The only feasible approach to analyzing it is, therefore, to divide it into smaller geographical elements through which one can have a better insight...
Greenhaven Press, 2010. — 192 p. — (Perspectives on Modern World History). — ISBN10: 073774796X; ISBN13: 978-0737747966. Offers basic historical information about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , examining the controversies surrounding this event and providing first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by it. This new series presents high...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 212 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Oral History). — ISBN10: 1137438312; ISBN13: 978-1137438317. In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 536 p. Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 320 p. Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant "colony" of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese...
PENGUIN UK, 2009. - 552 p. Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more? Western? Martin Jacques? groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but cultural. As China?s powerful civilization reasserts itself, it will signal the end of the global dominance of the...
Chapel Hill; London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. — xi, 400 p. — (The new Cold War history) — ISBN: 9780807849323. This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. — xii, 339 p. ISBN 0–231–10024–8. This study retraces China’s road to the Korean War with insight gained from recently released Chinese materials. It argues that China’s entry into the Korean War was determined by concerns much more complicated than safeguarding the Chinese-Korean border. To comprehend China’s decision to enter the...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. — xii, 339 p. ISBN 0–231–10024–8. This study retraces China’s road to the Korean War with insight gained from recently released Chinese materials. It argues that China’s entry into the Korean War was determined by concerns much more complicated than safeguarding the Chinese-Korean border. To comprehend China’s decision to enter the...
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (December 5, 2000).- 416 p. Language: English. ISBN13: 978-0807849323. This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 419 p. The Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China started in 1966 and lasted about a decade. This revolutionary upsurge of Chinese students and workers, led by Mao Zedong, wreaked havoc in the world's most populous country, often turning things upside down and undermining the party, government, and army while simultaneously weakening the...
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. — xiii, 300 p. — (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society). — ISBN: 9780822347958. Say "Mao Zedong" in China or among China scholars anywhere and there is a ready-made argument. The disputes over Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's recently published Mao: The Unknown Story provide just one example. According to many reviewers of...
Twenty-First Century Books, 2010. — 160 p. — (Civil Rights Struggles around the World). — ISBN10: 0822589710; ISBN13: 978-0822589716. In this gripping story of a historic clash between repressive government forces and individuals seeking freedom, we’ll explore the reasons that led students in China to defy authority. We’ll learn the details of their demands and of the...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 216 p. — (The New Cold War History). In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky...
New York London Oxford: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. — 432 p. — ISBN: 9781632864215. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. Frank Dikötter uses this wealth of material to undermine the picture of complete...
Hong Kong University Press. — 2010. — 162 p. ISBN: 978-988-8028 — 64 — 1. Artists and State. Artists Remember : Two Memoirs. Meaning Then and Now. Beyond the Visual Arts.
USA: Oxford University Press, 2012 - 152 p. China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion. Drawing upon a vital trove of...
Institute for International Economics, 2014. — 154 p. China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic progress rests on...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0190227915; ISBN13: 978-0190227913. The book contains stories of (and interviews with) some of those affected by the 1989 student protests, reviewing the events from the perspectives of current and former military personnel, students, protesters and their relatives. Some of the best-known interviewees are Wu'erkaixi, one of the...
New Haven: Yale University. — 225 p.: ill. Sidney Rittenberg is the subject of a new documentary film called “The Revolutionary.” He is an American who lived in China from 1945 to 1980. His arrival was partly a coincidence: he was drafted during World War II and sent to China after studying the Chinese language at Stanford University. He arrived just as the Japanese were...
New York; London: Palgrave Macmillan; Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2002. — xi, 263 p. — (St. Antony’s series). — ISBN: 9780333919552. In 1936 a group of Chinese communists were released from jail after a humiliating renunciation of communism. The Chinese Communist Party then secretly employed them to galvanise support in nationalist areas of the country. It later condemned the...
Routledge, 2018. — 552 p. When Britain and China negotiated the future of Hong Kong in the early 1980s, their primary concern was about maintaining the status quo. The rise of China in the last thirty years, however, has reshaped the Beijing-Hong Kong dynamic as new tensions and divisions have emerged. Thus, post-1997 Hong Kong is a case about a global city’s democratic...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2012. — 126 p. — ISBN10: 1137293829; ISBN13: 978-1137293824. Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the...
Harvard University Press, 2008. — 742 p. The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move...
3rd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 688 p. Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world's second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This...
Humanities Press, 1976. — 373 p. This is a remarkable and pioneering history of the Cultural Revolution in China. The book proves the centrality of the PLA to the Cultural Revolution. Mao protected the PLA as the last social institution preventing China from being engulfed in chaos. Many interesting insights in this book!
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2017. — xvi, 299 p. — ISBN: 9789811040085 (eBook). This is the final part of a three-volume study of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (March 1898–January 1976) and Japan, in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of Zhou’s visit to Japan in 1917 in order to study at a higher school in Tokyo. It reviews and updates...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the post-socialist era, and examines the politics of news media, focusing...
Routledge, 2005. — 304 p. List of abbreviations and acronyms used in text Statistical note 1949–August 1960 Grain imbalances, CHINCOM and China’s evolving economic and foreign trade strategy, 1949–June 1957 China’s ‘Great Leap’ famine, ‘test purchases’ of Western grain and return to ‘readjustment’, July 1957–August 1960 September 1960–September 1962 Chinese–Western grain trade...
Abacus, 2002. — 736 p. — ISBN10: 0349114692; ISBN13: 978-0349114699. The Tiananmen papers, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China published in decades. It reveals the highest-level processes of decision-making during the tumultuous events surrounding the terrible massacre in Tiananmen Square on 4...
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Pte Ltd., 2019. — xix, 287 p. — ISBN: 9789811083129 (eBook). This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state’s response in China today. It concentrates on the interactions between state and society, and the implications for the Chinese state’s control over society, or in other words, its survival...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 203 p. This book offers a rare glimpse into China's Korean minority, which dominates the area bordering North Korea; even as Korea is riven into capitalist and communist societies, China's Koreans register this dilemma as one internal to the society they live in, in China's postindustrial Northeast. As this research makes clear, once driven by state...
Berkeley & New York & London: University of California Press, 2012. — xvii; 392 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-27189-0 (cloth, alk. paper); ISBN: 978-0-520-27190-6 In no country is the challenge of confronting the revolutionary past in order to chart the political future more problematic or less predictable than in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The unfolding of that tortuous...
London: Routledge, 2011. — 243 p. Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who "returned" to the...
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — xiii, 348 p. (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series). — ISBN: 9783319512501 (eBook). This book explores the forces that impelled China, the worlds largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars...
Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN: 9781626162990 (ebook). Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can...
University of Washington Press, 2004. — 304 p. Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximately eight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 335 p. Updating the papers (essays) from the 2011 Asan Conference to cover the end of 2011, this book reflects the state of analysis on the eve of the important 2012-2013 transition to China's fifth-generation political leaders.
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 352 p. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from...
Berkely: Soft Skull Press, 2016. — 287 p. — ISBN: 9781593766528. A revealing and disturbing look at modern China and a great adventure tale wrapped into one. The author spent much of his adult life in China, first as a journalist and then as publisher of the first independent English-language newspaper in China. He reported first hand on the Tiananmen Massacre, he built a...
IIAS: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 280 p. Shanghai is a city in flux. In recent years, workers and machines have frantically destroyed large parts of the city to build a new one. But the mental maps and personal memories of its citizens are not as easily erased. Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation explores the social, cultural and mental impact of...
Scribner, 2021, - 319 p. - ISBN: 978-1-9821-5617-6 (ebook). This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is narrated by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the top levels of power and wealth — and then fell out of favor. Whitney had disappeared four years before, but this book led to her dramatic reemergence. As...
M.E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2004. — 484 p. — (Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus). Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland is a 2004 academic book about Muslims, especially Uyghurs who live in Xinjiang, a region of Western China. The collection of essays was edited by S. Frederick Starr. Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's...
Uppsala, Universitetstryckeriet, 2001. — 209 p. The study of China`s foreign policy Theorethical framework Mao`s reign: 1949-1976 Deng`s rule and the tragedy of Tiananmen: 1976-1989 After Tiananmen: 1989-2000 Coclusion and Discussion
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 413 p. This book documents how China’s rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China’s socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and...
Open Road, 1991. — 320 p. The Tiananmen triumph Illusions Secrets The ewatch keepers States of mind The roof of the world Persuasion Camelot, almost Presidential pragmatism Death in the Politburo Overtures Surges A time of decision Power plays Countermoves Turmoil on Tiananmen The Beckoning Abyss Martial law Marriage in Mayhem Massacre A time of pain For the moment Explanation
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 281 p. The Moral Economy of Water and Power Crisis and Opportunity: Water Resources and Dams in Contemporary China The Lancang River: Coping with Resettlement and Agricultural Change The Nu River: Anticipating Development and Displacement Experts, Assessments, and Models: The Science of Decision Making People in the Way: Resettlement in Policy...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 352 p. — (The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series). — ISBN10: 3319295489. — ISBN13: 978-3319295480. This book examines the driving forces behind national-level politics, changes to the judiciary, social control, economic reform, environmental protection, urban development, the management of ethnic relations, as well as foreign and security...
London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. — xii, 340 p. — ISBN: 9781845114190. A Modern History of Hong Kong presents a supremely well-balanced history of this former British imperial possession. Steve Tsang's meticulously researched historical narrative duly recognizes the efforts of both Hong Kong's industrious and civic-minded local Chinese population and the expatriate British who held...
Revised edition, English-Chinese version. — 西安：陕西师范大学出版总社有限公司，2015年。— 8，279页，插彩图。— ISBN: 9787561379806. Compiled by The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and The Office of Chinese Language Council International, Common Knowledge about Chinese History is an impressive introduction to China's long history beginning around Primitive Society till Opium War and up...
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing, 2017. — ix, 111 p. — Ebook ISBN: 9783319572048. This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People’s Republic of China. It aims to draw serious scholarly attention to, and bring about an impartial assessment of, the events in this period independent of partisan hysteria....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 273 p. This book is by far the best treatment of trends within the Chinese political economy since 2008. Looking through many functional lenses (business, politics, law, trade, administration, and others), it documents a trend of 'the state advancing and private people retreating' (guojin mintui) that has reversed an opposite trend during earlier...
1st American ed. Translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher; introduction by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar. — New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. — xxx, 629 p. — eISBN 9781466827790. Tombstone describes and analyzes the worst famine in human history, the disaster inflicted upon the Chinese...
Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. — xii, 301 p. (Includes bibliographical references and index) Edited and translated by Steven I. Levine and Guoli Liu. — ISBN: 978-0-8131-2646-3 (ebook) An English version of my book is being issued in the United States, not because the book is particularly well written, but because of the rising interest in China among U.S....
Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. — xii, 301 p. (Includes bibliographical references and index) Edited and translated by Steven I. Levine and Guoli Liu. — ISBN: 978-0-8131-2646-3 (ebook) An English version of my book is being issued in the United States, not because the book is particularly well written, but because of the rising interest in China among U.S....
Stanford University Press, 2003. — 320 p. For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book — a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of...
Edward Elgar Pub., 2009. — 269 p. This exhaustive resource provides comprehensive coverage of the major players in the Chinese economy since the reform era, which began in 1978. It includes 200 entries briefly summarizing each individual's life and career, with a central focus on his or her accomplishments and the key roles played in the economic development of China. The...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 277 p. — (The New Cold War History). The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 291 p. The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the context of capitalist globalization. By rethinking socialism, literature, and culture in relation to the intellectual and cultural trends since the...
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