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  • Why are we in Okinawa?

    A History of Violence

    by Jon Mitchell, Mark Selden ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    In this compelling history, award-winning journalist, Jon Mitchell, traces how the islands of Okinawa have been annexed by Japan, occupied by the United States and now menaced by China. In response, Okinawans have developed one of the world's most resilient – yet overlooked – pacifist movements.Once a wealthy kingdom, Okinawa was seized by Japan in the late-19th century and, after World War II, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Dying for an iPhone

    Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers

    by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Ngai Pun ...
    Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • China Inside and Out

    Politics and Policies in a Turbulent World

    by Mel Gurtov, Mark Selden ...
    Series series World Social Change
    At this moment, Americans regard China as a major threat, both economically and strategically, while Chinese regard the US as determined to contain China and impede its development. Tensions between the two countries remain high: human rights, trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea, military budgets.Yet, in spite of all these points of contention, the search for common ground through diplomatic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Our Land Was A Forest

    An Ainu Memoir

    by Mark Selden ...
    This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down from generation to generation, the book chronicles the disappearing world—and courageous rebirth—of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall

    The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

    by TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, Mark Selden ...
    Series series Silk Roads
    A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present.During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner Mongolia, Cheng Tiejun arrived in 1959 as a middle school student. In 1966, when the PRC plunged into the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

    Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

    Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical factors including an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Islands of Discontent

    Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power

    Edited by Laura Hein, Mark Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. The contributors trace the renascence of the debate in the burst of cultural and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present

    Edited by Juliane Fürst, Silvio Pons, Mark Selden ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Communism
    The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Chinese Society

    Change, Conflict and Resistance

    Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Transformation Of Communist Systems

    Economic Reform Since The 1950s

    by Bernard Chavance, Charles Hauss, Mark Selden ...
    In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve the old centralized ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism

    Doi Moi In Comparative Perspective

    by William S Turley, Mark Selden ...
    This book presents a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives on the problematic of reform in Vietnam. It explores the Vietnam's reforms in relation to those taking place in other countries of the socialist world, comparing doi moi with restructuring in other socialist states. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward

    The Case Of One Chinese Province

    by Jean-luc Domenach, Mark Selden ...
    The first major study of the Great Leap Forward, this seminal volume has now been translated into English for a wider audience. Like no other work, it suggests compelling political and social answers to questions that have long plagued scholars: How could a party with such a successful rural base launch a movement so divorced from reality– especially in the countryside? Why was the movement ... Read more

    $52.99 USD