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“karl gerth”

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  • As China Goes, So Goes the World

    How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

    by Karl Gerth ...
    In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 制造中国：消费文化与民族国家的创建

    by （美）葛凯（Karl Gerth）著 ...
    本书作者认为，影响近代（modern）世界的两大关键力量——民族主义（nationalism）和消费主义（consumerism）先后在中国滋长。在20世纪早期，民族主义把每件商品贴上“中国的”或“外国的”标签，消费文化变成民族性概念被清晰表达、被制度化及被实践的场所。本书以中文、日文和英语的档案、杂志、报纸和书籍为文献基础，第一次探讨了民族主义与消费主义之间的历史纽带，重新解释了中国近代史的基本方面，并为洞悉所有近代国家中的类似联系提出了方法上的参考。 ... Read more

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  • Unending Capitalism

    How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution

    by Karl Gerth ...
    What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Mao Zedong: Essential Biographies

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  • The Age of Openness

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  • Rethinking Chinese Politics

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    Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass on from one leader to the next. Indeed, each new leader must deploy whatever resources he has to gain control ... Read more

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  • Coalitions of the Weak

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    For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or ... Read more

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