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  • The Chinese Communist Party

    Edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, Hans van de Ven ...
    Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Voices from the Chinese Century

    Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

    Edited by Joshua Fogel, Timothy Cheek, David Ownby ...
    China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Living with Reform

    China since 1989

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous China' since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cheek surveys the changing terrain of intellectual life over ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on State Socialism in China

    by Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich ...
    Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • China's Establishment Intellectuals

    by Carol Lee Hamrin, Timothy Cheek ...
    First published in 1987. This book is part of an ongoing intellectual project—to understand how a changing Chinese Marxism both reflects and shapes the lives of the intelligentsia in China. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reimagining Lyric Diction Courses: Leading Change in the Classroom and Beyond

    CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    Series series CMS Emerging Fields in Music
    Drawing on 30 years of teaching experience, author Timothy Cheek demonstrates how a university lyric diction class—traditionally specialized and Eurocentric—can become transformative, through engaging students with other languages and cultures, and promoting diversity, equity, inclusivity, and antiracism.Raising new possibilities for traditional lyric diction pedagogy, this book explores how to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Perfect Italian Diction for Singers

    An Authoritative Guide

    by Timothy Cheek, Anna Toccafondi ...
    Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language.Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how to overcome those issues. In addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Pr'hody lisky Bystrousky, The Cunning Little Vixen

    Translations and Pronunciation, Volume 1

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    Series series The Janácek Opera Libretti Series
    Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leo? Janácek, this volume, the first in the Janácek Opera Libretti Series, is the full translation of The Cunning Little Vixen in English alongside the original Czech. This work meets the needs of English-speaking singers, conductors, coaches, and stage directors and conveniently provides ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Rusalka

    A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas. Written in 1900 at the height of Dvorák’s creative powers, his fairy tale opera Rusalka is a masterpiece firmly established in the international repertory—from 2010 to 2012 alone, over 200 performances of 27 productions of the opera ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Voices from the Chinese Century

    Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

    Edited by Joshua Fogel, Timothy Cheek, David Ownby ...
    China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mao's Road to Power

    Revolutionary Writings: Volume VIII

    Edited by Stuart Schram, Timothy Cheek, Roderick MacFarquhar ...
    Series series Mao's Road to Power
    This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD