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  • Urban Revolution

    People's Communes in Beijing

    by Fabio Lanza ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
    During the Great Leap Forward (1958–62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In the first English history of urban collectivization, Fabio Lanza explores the most radical attempts to remake cities under Mao. Examining the universalization of production, the collectivization of life, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Behind the Gate

    Inventing Students in Beijing

    by Fabio Lanza ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The End of Concern

    Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies

    by Fabio Lanza ...
    In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political, and financial structures. While the CCAS included scholars of Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • De-Centering Cold War History

    Local and Global Change

    Edited by Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, Fabio Lanza ...
    De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    by Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung ...
    An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound ... Read more

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  • From Rebel to Ruler

    One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

    by Tony Saich ...
    A Project Syndicate Best Read of the YearOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • How China Escaped Shock Therapy

    The Market Reform Debate

    by Isabella M. Weber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • China's Leaders

    From Mao to Now

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • Never Turn Back

    China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

    by Julian Gewirtz ...
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year“Excellent…A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China’s future explored during a decade long buried by official, state-sponsored history.”—Julia Lovell, Foreign Policy“A vivid and readable account…Exceptionally well-researched.” —Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs"The definitive book on China in the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • China's New Red Guards

    The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong

    by Jude Blanchette ...
    Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Unlikely Partners

    Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

    by Julian Gewirtz ...
    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 Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges ... Read more

    $32.39 USD