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China in revolution 1911-1949 (part1/10)
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Sons $10.07 Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck`s classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation |
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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China $44.15 This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period. Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China – the North China plain and the Yangzi delta – to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century. Peasants and Revolution in Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and political development. |
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China’s Revolution 1911-1912 $39.45 Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHINA’S REVOLUTION A HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL RECORD OF THE CIVIL WAR BY EDWIN j. DINGLE AUTHOR OF ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT WITH 2 MAPS AND 36 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK & 1912 rights TO THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES AND TO THE NEW CHINA PARTY IN THE HOPE THAT THEIR STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM MAY HERALD THE DAWNING OF A DAY OF RIGHT AND TRUTH FOR CHINA THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED AUTHOR’S NOTE THIS volume is a popular history of the Revolution in China that broke out at Wuchang, Hankow, and Hanyang in October of 1911. The narrative contains a good deal of new information touching upon revo lutionism in China, and the events leading up to the present climax* The magnitude of this Revolution cannot possibly be understood yet; but this volume is written in the hope that it will enable the student other wise untutored to understand much that one absorbs in Chinese life. When the Revolution broke out, 1 was residing in Hankow. Throughout the war I remained in Hankow, leaving this centre for Shanghai during the days when the Peace Conference was held in that city. I am a personal friend of the leader of the Revolution, General Li Yuan Hung, and, by virtue of having all the time been in possession of much exclusive information from behind the political curtain, arn probably equipped to write of the main doings of the Revolution in that area where its effects were most marked. On the very eve of the Revolution, a book written by myself was published simultaneously in England and America, , which contains some strangely prophetic utterances, and will give the reader who has not made Chinese politics a study a general idea of the condition of the country when theRevolution made the scales drop from the eyes of her teeming millions. 1 1 Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement/’ Henry Holt & Co., New York. $ 3.50. J. W, Arrow smith, Ltd, Bristol, i6s. 8 AUTHOR’S I wish gratefully to acknowledge the kind offices of Mr. Thos* F. Millard, editor of the China Press, for allowing me free use of the columns of that journal. Much of my information has been culled from the C. jP., although many of the articles were written by myself for that newspaper* whilst the war was in pro gress; but I am largely indebted to that paper also for many of my general later facts. Especially also do 1 wish to thank the Rev* Bernard Upward, of HankoWj for the assistance he has rendered me whilst this volume was being prepared. The chapter entitled ** Some Revolution Factors ** is from Mr. Upward’s pen, as is also that headed ‘* Yuan Shih K’ai **; many of the illustrations shown in the volume also are reproductions from 1 Mr. Upward* s splendid collection. My warm thanks are also due to Mr. Stanley V, Boxer, B. Sc., for the drawings from which the two maps embodied in this volume were prepared, and for the explanatory note accompanying the sketch map of the battlefields. It should, perhaps, in fairness to myself, be mentioned tha |
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China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution $3.95 China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China’s economic reform. The common view that China’s gradualistic approach has served it well overlooks the fact that state-owned banks for the last two decades have channeled a large share of sharply rising household savings into what are mostly unreformed, money-losing companies. The result is that several of China’s largest financial institutions now are insolvent. To avoid a major domestic banking crisis the book argues that China must recapitalize and restructure its domestic banking system and end the long-standing practice of making lending decisions based on political rather than economic criteria. Nicholas Lardy explains that this course will inevitably be costly in political terms, in part because it will lead for a time to a slower rate of economic growth. But the alternative is even less attractivepermanently slower growth, continued macroeconomic instability, an inability to meet the expectations of the international community for the opening of its domestic financial markets, and insufficient resources to deal with severe environmental deterioration, growing water shortages, and a rapidly aging population. This timely book also analyzes the new reform initiatives China has launched in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, suggests additional steps that must be taken, and evaluates the implications for U.S. policy. |
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Art and China’s Revolution $53.45 Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership, and argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Previously, historians have tended to dismiss the art of the Cultural Revolution as pure propaganda. The authors of this volume (historians, art historians, and artists) argue that while much art produced during this time was infused with politics, and individual creativity and displays of free thought were sometimes stifled and even punished, it is short sighted to overlook the aesthetic sophistication, diversity, and accessibility of much of the imagery. Bringing together more than 200 extraordinary artworks, including oil paintings, ink scroll paintings, artist sketchbooks, posters, and objects from daily life, as well as primary documentation that has not been published outside of China or seen since the mid-20th century, this invaluable volume sheds new light on one of the most controversial and critical periods in history. |
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China $3.95 National Geographic invites you to journey through China in a vibrant book that profiles the country’s extensive geography, its storied history, and its rich culture. You’ll also examine the growing role modern China plays in today’s global economy. Travel with the experts deep into this land of diverse people and see the wide range of landscapes, from vast plateaus to the great timber forests. Witness the Yangtze River in the east, yaks and gazelle in the wilderness of the west, and rare pandas as they prowl their natural habitat. Wander through the past, along the Great Wall of China, built to ward off enemies of a mighty empire. Experience the effects of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and learn how political tensions with neighbors like Taiwan and the recently acquired Hong Kong, play against China’s policy of welcoming tourists. Finally, examine how modern industrial China is balancing the traditions of the past with the demands of the future. |
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The Consumer Revolution in Urban China $9.12 After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China’s cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization. In the early 1980s, Beijing’s communist leadership advocated decollectivization, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald’s, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more. |
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The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity $20.81 Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China’s leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the roots of China’s social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the current state of mass depoliticization. From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China’s future. |
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China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 $46.99 Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation’s story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China’s defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, democratize the political system, and build a fairer and more unified society. Peter Zarrow weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in-depth themes central to China’s transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies, and empirical historicism. Essential reading for both students and instructors alike, it draws a picture of the personalities, ideas and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades. |
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On China $99.39 <p>For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others’ capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history.</p><p> </p><p> For the past forty years, Kissinger has maintained close relations with successive generations of Chinese leaders, and has probably been more intimately connected with China at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience and long study of the ‘Middle Kingdom’, examining China’s history from the classical era to the present day, and explaining why it has taken the extraordinary course that it has.</p><p> </p><p> The book concentrates on the decades since 1949, presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger’s conversations with each of them. But Kissinger’s eye rarely leaves the long continuum of Chinese history: he describes the essence of China’s approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, and the remarkable ways in which Communist-era statesmen have drawn on methods honed over millennia. At the end of the book, Kissinger reflects on these attitudes for our own era of economic interdependence and an uncertain future. </p><p> </p><p> <i>On China</i> is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.</p> |
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Mao and China : Inside China’s Revolution $12.79 This book is in Used condition |
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Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China $35.82 Reprinted From The China Digest, V5, Number 9, 10, 11, February-March, 1949. |
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China’s Design Revolution $16.06 No Synopsis Available |
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Modernization And Revolution In China $34.95 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s Second Revolution $3.98 This book is in Good Used condition |
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China’s Livestock Revolution $110 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s socialist revolution $5 This book is in Used condition |
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China’s Information Revolution $23.75 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s Inevitable Revolution $75.95 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China In War And Revolution, 1895-1949 $389.13 This book is in Used condition |
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China Since 1919 – Revolution and Reform $44.46 This collection begins with the cultural renaissance of the early 20th century, the rebellion against Western and Japanese imperialism after 1919, the rise of the Nationalist and Communist movements and their conflict in mainland China until the Communist victory of 1949. After that, the focus is on the revolutionary changes under Mao Zedong’s regime, and the ideological struggles after his death. Under Deng Ziaoping economic reform prompted rapid growth but also led to calls for greater political freedom, culminating in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. The final chapters illustrate the problems the regime faces today, including the ambitions of the Tibetan minority, and social issues such as unemployment and corruption. Next to domestic issues, China’s role in the Korean War and changing relations with the USA and Soviet Union are also covered. The collection includes classic documents as well as less accessible extracts, including a number available in English for the first time. Anyone interested in the modern history of China will find "China Since 1919 "an invaluable source of information. |
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Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China $44.72 Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao’s China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao’s China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. |
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Modern Art Installation to Commemorate the 530 Revolution, Renmin Square, Shanghai, China $24.99 Kober Christian Modern Art Installation to Commemorate the 530 Revolution, Renmin Square, Shanghai, China – Photographic Print |
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Statue Outside Chinese Revolution History Museum in Tiananmen Square Bejing, China $24.99 Glenn Beanland Statue Outside Chinese Revolution History Museum in Tiananmen Square Bejing, China – Photographic Print |
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Sculpture Outside Museum of Chinese History and Museum of Revolution Bejing, China $24.99 Glenn Beanland Sculpture Outside Museum of Chinese History and Museum of Revolution Bejing, China – Photographic Print |
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Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution $31.98 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 pubic 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 interviews with survivors in two southern provinces. This book extracts from the Chinese case lessons that challenge the prevailing models of genocide and mass killings and contributes to the historiography of the Cultural Revolution, in which scholarship has mainly focused on events in urban areas. |
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The Red Mirror: Children of China’s Cultural Revolution $4.83 These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China’s intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao’s death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long influence of this seminal period on China’s children. Those who were teenagers in the late 1960s joined the Red Guards and the revolutionary rebel groups, following Mao’s directives to make revolution, often to their own undoing. Those who were too young to participate directly were even more vulnerable. Although they had little understanding of the political firestorm that engulfed their parents, they were old enough to understand and feel the terror it brought. Vividly capturing the emotional intensity of the time, these stories explore what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor, to be sent to the countryside, to be separated–either ideologically or physically–from one’s parents, often forever.By undermining families and family structure, the Cultural Revolution created a generation of Chinese who view politics, the Communist Party, and life itself with deep cynicism. Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, "The Red Mirror" offers rare insights for understanding the crippling legacy of the Cultural Revolution. |
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The Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution $22.11 Mao and his policies have long been demonized in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite. This book tackles the extremely negative depiction of China under Mao in recent publications and argues that most people in China, including the rural poor and the urban working class, actually benefited from Mao’s policies. Under Mao there was a comprehensive welfare system for the urban poor and basic health and education provision in rural areas. These policies are being reversed in the current rush towards capitalism. Offering a critical analysis of mainstream accounts of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution, this book sets the record straight, making a convincing argument for the positive effects of Mao’s policies on the well-being of the Chinese people. |
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A Place in the Sun: Marxism and Fascimsm in China’s Long Revolution $3.94 China has endured a century of turmoil, beginning with the anti-dynastic revolution associated with Sun Yat-Sen, through the military and tutelary rule of Chiang Kai-shek, the revolutionary regime of Mao Zedong, and the radical reforms of Deng Xiaoping. China has had little respite. Historians and social scientists have attempted to understand some of this history as being the consequence of the impact of European ideologies-including Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, and Fascism. Rarely instructive or persuasive, the discussions regarding this issue have, more often than not, led to puzzlement, rather than enlightenment.In "A Place in the Sun," A. James Gregor offers an interpretation of the role of European Marxist and Fascist ideas on China’s revolutionaries that is both original, and based on a lifetime of scholarship devoted to revolutionary ideologies. Gregor renders a detailed analysis of their respective influence on major protagonists. In the exposition, Gregor reveals an unsuspected and complex set of relationships between the Chinese revolution and essentially European ideologies. His discussion concludes with a number of estimations that suggest implications for the future of modern China, and its relationship with the advanced industrial democracies. How post-Dengist China-the world’s most populous nation-is to be understood remains uncertain to most comparativists and historians. Gregor provides one well supported alternative, and he is carefully attentive to the implications of this alternative. |
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Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution $13.43 This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this century. The book follows the legend of China’s awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its encounters with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to wake up everyone. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers, revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in common. The book focuses on the Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of Mao’s role in the Nationalist Propaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant movement activist. |
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Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform $45.19 Governing China: From Revolution to Reform, the leading text for courses on Chinese politics has been thoroughly revised and updated. The new Second Edition includes discussions of: The consumer revolution that has brought China’s major urban areas to the forefront of the developed world and created a new middle class An expanding private sector that has become the major generator of new employment in the overall economy as the state sector has shed jobs The increase in foreign direct investment which has set China on track to becoming the manufacturing center of the world. An enormous population migration from rural to urban areas and from the interior to the coast that is becoming one of the most massive movements of people in human history, and its significant impact on the environment The unprecedented integration into the international economic system as China has joined virtually every major multilateral regime The reactions of the top and the bottom of the political system to these recent developments and the continuing struggles between the government’s large bureaucratic structures and sporadic popular political movements. |
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When China Unites – An Interpretive History of the Chinese Revolution $34.27 China JUnites WHEN CHINA UNITES Contents i OPIUM, CANNON, AND THE TAIPINGS 3 n THE 1911 REVOLUTION 22 in – A WORLD WAR ALLY BETOAYED 34 iv SOCIAL AWAKENING 54 v ANTI-IMPERIALIST UPSURGE 80 vi-1925-1927-FntsT STAGES OF UNITY 93 VII KUOMINTANG VS. RED ARMY 7 vm MANCHURIA THE GREAT DEMARCATION 14 ix – THE RED TREK AND NATIONAL DEFENCE 179 x THE CHINESE WALL PUSHED SOUTH 200 xi JAPAN is raos ENEMY 220 xii A GENERALISSIMO KIDNAPPED 246 xra CHINA FACES THE FUTURE 276 Index follows page 293 Maps 1. Outline Map of China, showing all Provinces and Important Cities FACING PAGE 3 2. Map of Soviet TreJ and Present Area 191 3. Manchufyo and North China Area 205 When China Unites CHAPTER I Opium, Cannon, and the Taipings THE story of modern China is the history of one fifth of the human race striving to attain its national independence. The 450,000,000 Chinese are on the eve of realizing that unity which will ultimately consolidate them into the largest sover eign nation in the world. Militarists in many ages have dreaded that prospect. More than a century ago Napoleon Bonaparte, in a moment of prophetic insight, declared of China There lies a sleeping giant Let him sleep For when he wakes, he will move the world. More recently the late Baron General Tanaka warned his Japanese co-conspirators plotting complete dismemberment of China Our plans will be utterly shattered if China wakes up some day. Long before Americas greatest concern over a new world war centred in the Pacific, when gold had brought the rush of pioneer migration to the Pacific coast, William H. Seward in 1852 predicted for his fellow Americans The Pacific, its shores, its islands, and the vast region beyond, will become 3 4 WHEN CHINAUNITES the chief theater of events in the worlds great hereafter. Sewards visions were confirmed and enlarged by that om nivorous American student of the Far East, the statesman whose name is so closely associated with basic American policy in China, John Hay, Secretary of State in the most ac tive period of American penetration in the Far East. Said John Hay The worlds peace rests with China, and whoever understands China socially, politically, economically, reli giously, holds the key to world politics during the next five centuries. Though in their day these soldiers and statesmen did not exaggerate the importance of China in world politics, today the fate of China is more than ever before intimately and im mediately connected with the future of all mankind. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Herbert Hoover, during the most dangerous days of Japans intervention in Manchuria, when the peace of the world was balanced on the razor-edged swords of the Japanese military clique, has said The future of China is one of the great prob lems of the ages. … But one thing is clear, she must de velop in her own way. ., . Hers is the most persistent cul ture in the world. Forty centuries have demonstrated that If there is a single semi-colonial |
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A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World $5.45 China today is poised to play a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation was very different. In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern world. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China’s twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, embracing youth, this "New Culture movement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed: the 1940s, with the war against Japan and the civil war between the Nationalist Party and the Communists; the 1960s, with the bizarre, seemingly anarchic world of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution; and the 1980s, with the rise of a semi-market economy against the backdrop of continued single-party rule and growing inequality. Throughout each of these dramatically different eras, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to the recent romance with space-age technology. China, Mitter concludes, still seems to be in search of a new narrative about what the country is, and what it should become. And May 4 remains a touchstone in that search. |
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China’s Son: Growing Up In The Cultural Revolution $6.99 A candid memoir about growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution adapted by the author from his Colors of the Mountain published by Random House. Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord he and his family were treated as outcasts in Communist China. In school Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his "family’s crimes " he could never be more than a poor farmer. Feeling his fate was hopeless Da responded by dropping out and hanging around with a gang. However after Mao’s death Da realized that an education and college might be possible but he had to make up for the time he’d wasted. He began to study-all day and into the night. His entire family rallied to help him succeed working long hours in the rice fields and going into debt to ensure that Da would have an education. When the final exam results were posted he had one of the highest scores in the region and had earned a place at the prestigious Beijing University. Now his family’s past would not harm their future. From the Hardcover edition. |
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China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution $3.95 A candid memoir about growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, adapted by the author from his Colors of the Mountain, published by Random House. Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he and his family were treated as outcasts in Communist China. In school, Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that, because of his "family’s crimes," he could never be more than a poor farmer. Feeling his fate was hopeless, Da responded by dropping out and hanging around with a gang. However, after Mao’s death, Da realized that an education and college might be possible, but he had to make up for the time he’d wasted. He began to study-all day and into the night. His entire family rallied to help him succeed, working long hours in the rice fields and going into debt to ensure that Da would have an education. When the final exam results were posted, he had one of the highest scores in the region and had earned a place at the prestigious Beijing University. Now his family’s past would not harm their future. "From the Hardcover edition." |
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Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937 $42.2 In "Revolution and History, " Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist historiography by scholars who based their opinions primarily on post-1949 writings. |
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The Cultural Revolution: Years of Chaos in China $22.9 - Event Timeline – Source Notes – Maps – Charts – Select Bibliography – Historic Places – Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index – Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com – National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the Schools, 1996, pp. 91-131. Eras 4-10. |
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Revolution, Resistance, And Reform in Village China $73.92 This book is in Used condition |
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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China $22 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s Industrial Revolution And Economic Presence $65.55 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution $39.95 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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China’s Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy $44.76 As one of the world’s largest economies China is facing many unique management challenges in the wake of the financial crisis. The future presents many opportunities for growth and commerce but new management skills must be developed to cope with these issues. |
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Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution $78.46 Mao Zedong’s political and cultural legacy remains potent even in today’s China. There have been many books that have explored his posthumous legacy, but none that has scrutinized the cult of Mao and the massive worship that was fostered around him at the height of his powers during the Cultural Revolution. This riveting book is the first to do so. By analyzing previously secret archival documents, obscure objects, and political pamphlets, Daniel Leese traces the tumultuous history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The Party leadership’s original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nationalists’ elevation of Chiang Kai-shek. They did not, however, anticipate that Mao would use this symbolic power to mobilize Chinese youth to rebel against party bureaucracy itself. The result was anarchy, and when the army was called in, it relied on mandatory rituals of worship, such as daily reading of the Little Red Book or performances of ‘the loyalty dance’, to restore order. Such fascinating detail sheds light not only on the personality cult of Mao, but also on hero-worship in other traditions. |
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Revolution News $9.19 The HISTORY NEWS–perfectly packaged The award-winning History News series presents history in a unique, kid-friendly format that’s as accessible as the morning newspaper. And now, with these new editions, all the books are available in paperback, in a reduced trim size, and at the right price for kid and teacher purchases.Ride with Paul Revere and watch fifty colonists sign the Declaration of Independence. Witness the storming of the Bastille by Parisian mobs and find out why King Louis XVI lost his head. Get Lenin’s thoughts on planning a revolution and march with Mao to a new China. Revolution News covers the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions, and offers a two-page overview of major events worldwide. |
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Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to World Power $3.95 The drama of China’s struggle to modernize unfolds against the backdrop of a proud and enduring history in the new and completely revised edition of this classic text. Spanning the years of the Opium War to twenty-first century China, the book covers the great episodes that highlight that journey: the breakdown of Imperial China in the face of relentless Western and Japanese encroachments; the rise of the new Chinese republic; the decades-long struggles between the ideologies and armies of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong; China’s bitter and costly war with Japan; the years of the People’s Republic punctuated by the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen; up to the rise of the Fourth Generation leadership and the tenure of Jiang Zemin–with special emphasis on China’s role in the Gulf wars, North Korea, and the war on terrorism. As China continues to develop as a political and economic superpower, this book will help students understand how the nation reached new heights from the depths in which it found itself during the nineteenth century. |
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The Revolution Continues: New Art from China $22.86 China has emerged as the next frontier for contemporary art. Chinese artists, such as Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi, and Shen Shaomin, are producing some of today’s most provocative new work. With China set to host the world at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World’s Fair, enthusiasm for recent Chinese art continues to grow. This volume fills an important gap and provides badly needed context for the collector or connoisseur. Charles Saatchi, one of the savviest figures in the contemporary art scene, has built an unparalleled collection of new Chinese art which is presented here in glorious color reproduction on the eve of the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea. Not only is this the seminal book on the subject, it is the first book to bring contemporary Chinese art into focus. |
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Media in China $46.51 Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China – a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary collection draws on the expertise of industry professionals, academic experts and cultural critics. It offers a variety of perspectives on audio-visual industries in the world’s largest media market. In particular, the contributors examine television, film, music, commercial and political advertising, and new media such as the internet and multimedia. These essays explore evolving audience demographies, new patterns of media reception in regional centres, and the gradual internationalization of media content and foreign investment in China’s broadcasting industries. This book will of use to students and professionals involved in media and communication, as well as anyone interested in contemporary China. |
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The History of China $3.94 Every school and public library should update its resources on China with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history of China from prehistoric times to 2000. The world’s oldest continuing civilization, China’s technological, cultural, and philosophical developments have influenced the world throughout its long history. Wright, an expert on China, has written a fascinating history that not only makes the complex history of China clear to the reader, but weaves into each era of that history the thematic strands of diplomatic, cultural, and technological history. Following a timeline of historical events, the narrative begins with a discussion of geography, government, and population. In successive chapters the chronological narrative covers China’s early history, pre-imperial China, early imperial China, middle and late imperial China, the tumultuous 19th century, revolution and republic, the creation of the People’s Republic to Mao’s death, Deng’s China, and China in the 1990s. The work closes with a discussion of China’s challenges in the 21st century-overpopulation, a "graying" population, and economic development. Brief biographical sketches of notable people in the history of China, a chronological list of Chinese dynasties, a glossary, and a bibliographic essay of recommended books for further reading add reference value to the history. |
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Cultural Revolution Kitsch, Cat Street Market, Upper Lascar Row, Hong Kong, China, Asia $19.99 Wendy Connett Cultural Revolution Kitsch, Cat Street Market, Upper Lascar Row, Hong Kong, China, Asia – Photographic Print |
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China’s Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War (1912) $41.91 Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHINA’S REVOLUTION A HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL RECORD OF THE CIVIL WAR BY EDWIN j. DINGLE AUTHOR OF ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT WITH 2 MAPS AND 36 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK & 1912 rights TO THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES AND TO THE NEW CHINA PARTY IN THE HOPE THAT THEIR STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM MAY HERALD THE DAWNING OF A DAY OF RIGHT AND TRUTH FOR CHINA THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED AUTHOR’S NOTE THIS volume is a popular history of the Revolution in China that broke out at Wuchang, Hankow, and Hanyang in October of 1911. The narrative contains a good deal of new information touching upon revo lutionism in China, and the events leading up to the present climax* The magnitude of this Revolution cannot possibly be understood yet; but this volume is written in the hope that it will enable the student other wise untutored to understand much that one absorbs in Chinese life. When the Revolution broke out, 1 was residing in Hankow. Throughout the war I remained in Hankow, leaving this centre for Shanghai during the days when the Peace Conference was held in that city. I am a personal friend of the leader of the Revolution, General Li Yuan Hung, and, by virtue of having all the time been in possession of much exclusive information from behind the political curtain, arn probably equipped to write of the main doings of the Revolution in that area where its effects were most marked. On the very eve of the Revolution, a book written by myself was published simultaneously in England and America, , which contains some strangely prophetic utterances, and will give the reader who has not made Chinese politics a study a general idea of the condition of the country when theRevolution made the scales drop from the eyes of her teeming millions. 1 1 Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement/’ Henry Holt & Co., New York. $ 3.50. J. W, Arrow smith, Ltd, Bristol, i6s. 8 AUTHOR’S I wish gratefully to acknowledge the kind offices of Mr. Thos* F. Millard, editor of the China Press, for allowing me free use of the columns of that journal. Much of my information has been culled from the C. jP., although many of the articles were written by myself for that newspaper* whilst the war was in pro gress; but I am largely indebted to that paper also for many of my general later facts. Especially also do 1 wish to thank the Rev* Bernard Upward, of HankoWj for the assistance he has rendered me whilst this volume was being prepared. The chapter entitled ** Some Revolution Factors ** is from Mr. Upward’s pen, as is also that headed ‘* Yuan Shih K’ai **; many of the illustrations shown in the volume also are reproductions from 1 Mr. Upward* s splendid collection. My warm thanks are also due to Mr. Stanley V, Boxer, B. Sc., for the drawings from which the two maps embodied in this volume were prepared, and for the explanatory note accompanying the sketch map of the battlefields. It should, perhaps, in fairness to myself, be mentioned tha |
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Years of the 20th Century in China: 1911 in China, 1924 in China, 1927 in China, 1937 in China, 1939 in China, 1940 in China, 1948 $37.63 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 200. Chapters: 1911 in China, 1924 in China, 1927 in China, 1937 in China, 1939 in China, 1940 in China, 1948 in China, 1949 in China, 1964 in China, 1971 in China, 1980 in China, 1984 in China, 1987 in China, 1988 in China, 1989 in China, 1991 in China, 1992 in China, 1993 in China, 1994 in China, 1996 in China, 1997 in China, 1998 in China, 2000 in China, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Nanking Massacre, Battle of Nanking, Wuchang Uprising, Xinhai Revolution, Battle of Shanghai, 1939-1940 Winter Offensive, China at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Defense of Sihang Warehouse, 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, Second Zhili-Fengtian War, Siping Campaign, USS Panay incident, Taiyuan Campaign, China and the United Nations, Sino-British Joint Declaration, China at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Northern Expedition, Shanghai Campaign, Shanghai massacre of 1927, 1992 Consensus, China at the 1988 Summer Olympics, China at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Lanzhou Campaign, 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement, Battle of Tashan, Republic of China legislative election, 1948, China at the 1984 Summer Olympics, HMS Amethyst, Battle of Xinkou, China at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Battle of Guningtou, Operation Chahar, Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, Miss Universe 1988, Tientsin Incident, Battle of Beiping-Tianjin, Nanjing Incident, Yanzhou Campaign, China at the 1992 Winter Olympics, Liaoshen Campaign, Huaihai Campaign, Central Hupei Operation, Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Linfen Campaign, Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Campaign, China Southern Airlines Flight 3456, China at the 1984 Winter Olympics, Nanchang Uprising, Battle of Pingxingguan, Qiandao Lake Incident, Jingshan-Zhongxiang Campaign, 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish, Campaign to the North of Nanchuan County, Man’s Fate, Johnson South Reef Skirmish, Zhoucun-Zhangdian … |
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China’s Information Revolution: Managing The Economic And Social Transformation $15.49 Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. China has the world&apos;s largest telecommunications market, and its information technology industry has been an engine of economic growth – growing two to three times faster than GDP over the past 10 years. E-government initiatives have achieved significant results, and the private sector has increasingly used ICT for production and service processes, internal management, and online transactions. The approaching 10-year mark provides an excellent opportunity to update the policy to reflect the evolving needs of China&apos;s economy. These needs include the challenges posed by industrialization, urbanization, upgraded consumption, and social mobility. Developing a more effective ICT strategy will help China to achieve its economic and social goals. Addressing all the critical factors is complex and requires long-term commitment. This book highlights several key issues that need to be addressed decisively in the second half of this decade, through policies entailing institutional reform, to trigger broader changes. This books is the result of 10 months of strategic research by a World Bank team at the request of China&apos;s State Council Informatization Office and the Advisory Committee for State Informatization. Drawing on background papers by Chinese researchers, the study provides a variety of domestic perspectives and local case studies and combines these perspectives with international experiences on how similar issues may have been addressed in other countries. |
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The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond $36.45 American professional photographer Francis Stafford was allowed access to the military on both sides of China’s 1911 Revolution, in which the last dynasty, the Qing, fell to Republican revolutionaries led by Sun Yatsen. An Introduction and extensive captions accompany photographs, taken between 1905 and 1915, that feature historical figures as well as aspects of daily life, local customs, and social problems. Hanchao Lu is professor of Asian history at Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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China and Africa $46.46 With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as China’s hunger for energy resources grows and many African countries seek a partner that, unlike the West, does not worry about democracy and transparency, or impose political conditions on economic relations. Ian Taylor, one of the foremost authorities on the international relations and political economy of Africa, provides a comprehensive assessment of relations between China and Africa. He discusses the historical evolution of Sino-African relations in the period since the 1949 revolution, with particular emphasis on the period since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Considering in detail China’s relations with Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Malawi, Taylor demonstrates how China has used the rhetoric of anti-hegemonies to secure and promote its position in the Third World. Taylor gives an engaging account of the hitherto under-researched topic of relations between China and Africa, a phenomenon of growing importance in contemporary international politics. |
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Revolution $10 Revolution – The Veronicas |
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Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class $29.13 "Rise of the Red Engineers" explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups–the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China’s old educated elite–coalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country’s propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical measures to eliminate class distinctions based on education, aggravating antagonisms between the new political and old cultural elites. Ultimately, however, Mao’s attacks on both groups during the Cultural Revolution spurred inter-elite unity, paving the way–after his death–for the consolidation of a new class that combined their political and cultural resources. This story is told through a case study of Tsinghua University, which–as China’s premier school of technology–was at the epicenter of these conflicts and became the party’s preferred training ground for technocrats, including many of China’s current leaders. |
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Growing Up in the People’s Republic: Conversations Between Two Daughters of China’s Revolution $10.76 In conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the Cultural Revolution and the ensuing Communist regime. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet rarely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People’s Republic of China (PRe. In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of identity. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma’s narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women’s lives. |
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Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China $22.65 Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress. "Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution" is the first comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China’s revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. Path-breaking in its scope, the research in this volume carefully examines the memories of a wide range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship. Looking at a variety of embodiments of memories–interviews, films, photo exhibits, museums, and websites–the authors, ranging from anthropologists to film studies specialists, present original research on the idea of "memories as a cultural and political phenomenon." The result is an unprecedented and illuminating reexamination of the memory of, and occasionally nostalgia for, the Chinese Revolution. Contributors include: Anita Chan, Robert Chi, David J. Davies, Kirk A. Denton, Gail Hershatter, Ching Kwan Lee, Kimberley Ens Manning, Erik Mueggler, Paul G. Pickowicz, Jonathan Unger, Ban Wang, and Guobin Yang. |
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The Cultural Revolution Cookbook: Simple, Healthy Recipes from China’s Countryside $22.93 In 1969, millions of Chinese teenagers were forced from their homes in the city in order to live and work in the countryside as part of China’s Cultural Revolution. The work was backbreaking and rations were tight, but Sasha Gong has fond memories of learning to make simple, delicious country cooking. A collection of delectable, healthy, and easy-to-make Chinese recipes from the villages interspersed with a personal narrative and bits of historical context, this cookbook contains authentic Chinese dishes ranging from honey-braised duck to stir-fried rice made from ingredients found at local grocery stores. Chinese history buffs and foodies alike will enjoy discovering the integral connection between Chinese culture and food. |
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Inside China $11.99 Exotic China has always attracted great photographers, and its history has yielded unforgettable scenes. Inside China unveils fascinating archival images rarely made public: Luminaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud portray the old order and the ascendancy of Chairman Mao; Chinese news photographer Li Zhensheng gives startling new insight into the harsh Cultural Revolution. Today’s China, filled with excitement and fraught with challenge, is captured by contemporary photographers including Mark Leong, Paolo Pellegrin, and Mark Henley – who, with privileged access, depict fashionable youth and glamour, the development of mega-industry, and new materialism alongside traditional religion and rural life, revealing the rapidly changing scene in all its complexity. Five renowned experts on China – Jonathan Spence, James Watt, James MacGregor, Elizabeth Economy, and Minxin Pei – narrate and enrich the story with informative, thought-provoking essays. |
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Retail Revolution $9.99 The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means Wal-Mart the world’s largest company roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology Reagan-era politics and Protestant evangelism Sam Walton’s firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers famed for the ruthless efficiency of its global network of stores and factories. But the revolution has gone further: Sam’s protégés have created a new economic order which puts thousands of manufacturers indeed whole regions in thrall to a retail royalty. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors in their heyday Wal-Mart sets the commercial model for a huge swath of the global economy. In this lively probing investigation historian Nelson Lichtenstein deepens and expands our knowledge of the merchandising giant. He shows that Wal-Mart’s rise was closely linked to the cultural and religious values of Bible Belt America as well as to the imperial politics deregulatory economics and laissez-faire globalization of Ronald Reagan and his heirs. He explains how the company’s success has transformed American politics and he anticipates a day of reckoning when challenges to the Wal-Mart way at home and abroad are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful original and steeped in the culture of retail life The Retail Revolution draws on first hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has transformed international commerce. |
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China Dawn $10.89 Imagine living through the breakthrough moments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the other icons of today’s new economy. The kind of technological revolution that they led in Silicon Valley is now sweeping through China, but with much more dramatic implications. The dynamic entrepreneurs who are using technology to radically transform business and cultural life in China are fighting not only outdated business models and a tumultuous economy but also an unpredictable government that has a love-hate relationship with the Net, at once pushing its expansion at a feverish pace and censoring it. As Duncan Clark, cofounder of BDA, an Internet consulting company in Beijing, told author David Sheff, "This environment — the regulations, the competition, the political uncertainties — makes these the fastest, most courageous, nimblest-thinking people globally. To deal with this level of risk and still sleep is no small accomplishment. But they’re hooked on it like some Chinese are becoming hooked on Starbucks cappuccino." In this irresistible, groundbreaking book, Sheff takes us into the trenches of the Chinese technology revolution, introducing the major and minor players who are leading China into the twenty-first century. Players like Bo Feng, the charismatic former sushi chef who is now one of the leading venture capitalists in China. And Edward Tian, a national hero who has been described as China’s Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combined, who left his own start-up on the eve of its IPO in order to lead the government’s attempt to bring broadband to the entire nation, in the process leapfrogging the United States, Europe, and the rest of Asia with the longest and fastest network in the world. As the U.S. technological revolution wanes, business leaders will be looking to the billion-plus potential customers in China for new growth. In addition, the world’s newest member of the World Trade Organization will no longer be a bystander in the global economy; it will be a fierce competitor. And when hundreds of million Chinese have access to unprecedented information and communication, China itself will be profoundly altered. Jay Chang, an analyst who covers China for Credit Suisse First Boston, sums the seismic nature of the changes: "What happens when China successfully transforms from a mainly agrarian/industrial nation into one that has significant input from the information technology industry? What happens when eighty percent of the state-owned enterprises in China are able to link economically to the global Internet on fast pipes? What happens when China’s engineering talent pool is able to gain access to high-end computing resources and exchange ideas and information easily with their global peers? What happens when fifty percent of the Chinese population gets wired in ten years — six hundred million people, the largest number of Internet users in the world?" With its compelling, character-driven story, researched over the course of t |
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Articles on 1912 in China, Including: Xinhai Revolution, Xinhai Revolution in Xinjiang, 1912 in the Republic of China $14.56 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on 1912 in China. |
