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  • The People's Peking Man

    Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China

    by Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing "superstition" and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Revolution, Green Revolution

    Scientific Farming in Socialist China

    by Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.In Red Revolution, Green ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visualizing Modern China

    Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

    by James A. Cook, Matthew D. Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael G. Chang, Madeleine Yue Dong, Susan Fernsebner, Christian Hess0, Lu Liu1, Cecily McCaffrey2, Andrew D. Morris3, Charles D. Musgrove4, Zhiwei Xiao5, Xiaowei Zheng6, E. Elena Songster7, Jeremy Brown8 ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean

    Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong's Work for Sustainable Farming

    by Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    Illustrated by Melanie Linden Chan ...
    Winner of The Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing AwardSelected for the CCBC Choices 2019 listChildren's Literature Freeman Award 2018A Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean tells its story through the memories of a farm boy who, inspired by Pu Zhelong, became a scientist himself.The narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhel... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Maoism at the Grassroots

    Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

    by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...
    The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Maoism at the Grassroots

    Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

    by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...
    The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

    Science and Technology in Modern China

    by Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Darryl E. Brock, Cong Cao, Yinghong Cheng, Susan Greenhalgh, Michael A. Mikita, Sigrid Schmalzer, Stacey Solomone0, Rudi Volti1, Yibao Xu2, Dongping Han3 ...
    China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights. Despite the widespread verdict of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as an ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping

    by Michael E. Marti ...
    China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Dengs efforts to link all the major elements of societythe PLA, the Party, the revolutionary elders, and the regional governorsinto a coalition ... Read more

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    by Yang Jisheng ...
    Translated by Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian ...
    The definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down offers a withering and heartbreaking account of a devastating decade in Chinese history.As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

    by Ezra F. Vogel ...
    No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist—the pragmatic, disciplined force behind China’s radical economic, technological, and social transformation. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Mao Zedong

    A Life

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modern-day ... Read more

    $9.99 USD