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  • Seeking Modernity in China’s Name

    Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927

    by Weili Ye ...
    The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity," introducing new social customs, new kinds of interpersonal relationships, new ways of ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    by Orville Schell, John Delury ...
    Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mao

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Delia Davin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. He was a founder of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and for many ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

    by Yang Su ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Rethinking Chinese Politics

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    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

    $38.59 USD

  • After Empire

    The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924

    by Peter Zarrow ...
    From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Debating Human Rights in China

    A Conceptual and Political History

    by Marina Svensson ...
    Tracing the concept of human rights in Chinese political discourse since the late Qing dynasty, this comprehensive history convincingly demonstrates that-contrary to conventional wisdom-there has been a vibrant debate on human rights throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on little-known sources, Marina Svensson argues that the concept of human rights was invoked by the Chinese people well ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Fact in Fiction

    1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

    by Kristin Stapleton ...
    Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Two Systems, Two Countries

    A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong

    by Kevin Carrico ...
    As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why.Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Collaborative Colonial Power

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era, colonial power has been extensively shared between colonizers and the Chinese who chose to work with them. This exploration of the form of colonial power ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

    Chinese Socialism in Crisis

    by Yiching Wu ...
    Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government's grasp, and rebellion took on a life of its own. Turmoil became a reality in a way the Great Leader had not foreseen. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins recaptures ... Read more

    $57.59 USD