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  • A Century of Student Movements in China

    The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019

    by Peng Deng, Xiaojia Hou, Ting Jiang, Danke Li, Hongshan Li, Liyan Liu, Pingchao Zhu, Xiaoxiao Li, Yi Sun, Xiansheng Tian, Patrick Fuliang Shan ...
    In this book the authors offer their unique perspectives on the important roles Chinese students and intellectuals played in the shaping of the twentieth-century China. Their answers to these pivotal questions explore new nationalistic spirit, modern world-views, and willingness of self-sacrifice, which had attributed to the spontaneous actions of the students as a “New Culture” emerged during the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China

    by Qiang Fang, Xiaojia Hou, Sherman Xiaogang Lai, Xiaoxiao Li, Yue Li, Chen Liu, Helen Wu, Stella Xu, Dongyu Yang, Zhiguo Yang0, Xiaobing Li2, Xiansheng Tian3, Patrick Fuliang Shan4 ...
    Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested in the subject. Their scholarship makes a significant contribution through multi-faceted ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present

    by Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman, Guiha Guan, Donghui He, Xiaojia Hou, You Ji, Hanbing Kong, Lorenz Luthi, Elizabeth McGuire, Gregory Rohlf, Laurence Schneider, Douglas Stiffler, Péter Vámos, Miin-ling Yu, Jian Zang, Shengfa Zhang, Minglang Zhou, Thomas P. Bernstein, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also to the emulation of the Soviet Union in realms such as those of ideology, education, science, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Uyghur Nation

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    by László Krasznahorkai ...
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    by Shanghai.Manholes ...
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