Chen Village Under Mao And Deng

Author : Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0520081099

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Chen Village Under Mao and Deng by Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger Pdf

Chen Village, the enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of the Maoist revolution, has become a modern classic. Now the authors have returned to Chen Village to bring the village's tumultuous story up to the nineties. Chen Village Under Mao and Deng includes not only the bulk of the original text of Chen Village, but also three new chapters on village life under Deng: gripping descriptions of the village leader's purge, the rapid industrialization of the district, an alienated "lost generation" of young peasants, and the new village officials' legal and illegal efforts at self-enrichment. Readers who enjoyed Chen Village will be doubly fascinated by the ironic twists and turns of recent events among the Chens.

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1029284358

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Chen Village Under Mao and Deng by Anita Chan Pdf

Author : Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520259317

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Chen Village by Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger Pdf

Chen Village has been acclaimed as a modern classic. The book's first two editions presented an enthralling and beautifully written account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution--with tumultuous political campaigns, power struggles, a Cultural Revolution rebellion, and radical shifts in social customs--followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a half later, the authors have returned to Chen Village, and in three new chapters they explore astonishing developments. The once-backwater village is today a center of China's export industry, where more than 50,000 workers labor in modern factories, ruled over by the village government. The new chapters show how the latest swing in fortunes has affected the Chens' self-identity, customs, and entrepreneurship, while laying bare the stark situation of the workers who crowd in from poor parts of China's countryside. This new edition of Chen Village illuminates, in microcosm, the recent history of rural China up to the present time.

Author : Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520047206

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Chen Village by Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger Pdf

Author : Richard Madsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520360877

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Morality and Power in a Chinese Village by Richard Madsen Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Author : Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674257412

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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel Pdf

Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of the Year | An Esquire China Book of the Year | A Gates Notes Top Read of the Year Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist. Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at Tiananmen Square. Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top, Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.

Author : R. Coase,N. Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137019370

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How China Became Capitalist by R. Coase,N. Wang Pdf

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persuasively arguing that the reforms implemented by the Chinese leaders did not represent a concerted attempt to create a capitalist economy, and that it was 'marginal revolutions' that introduced the market and entrepreneurship back to China. Lessons from the West were guided by the traditional Chinese principle of 'seeking truth from facts'. By turning to capitalism, China re-embraced her own cultural roots. How China Became Capitalist challenges received wisdom about the future of the Chinese economy, warning that while China has enormous potential for further growth, the future is clouded by the government's monopoly of ideas and power. Coase and Wang argue that the development of a market for ideas which has a long and revered tradition in China would be integral in bringing about the Chinese dream of social harmony.

Author : Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520259319

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Chen Village by Anita Chan,Richard Madsen,Jonathan Unger Pdf

Chen Village has been acclaimed as a modern classic. The book's first two editions presented an enthralling and beautifully written account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution--with tumultuous political campaigns, power struggles, a Cultural Revolution rebellion, and radical shifts in social customs--followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a half later, the authors have returned to Chen Village, and in three new chapters they explore astonishing developments. The once-backwater village is today a center of China's export industry, where more than 50,000 workers labor in modern factories, ruled over by the village government. The new chapters show how the latest swing in fortunes has affected the Chens' self-identity, customs, and entrepreneurship, while laying bare the stark situation of the workers who crowd in from poor parts of China's countryside. This new edition of Chen Village illuminates, in microcosm, the recent history of rural China up to the present time.

Author : Edward Friedman,Paul G. Pickowicz,Mark Selden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133233

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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China by Edward Friedman,Paul G. Pickowicz,Mark Selden Pdf

Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era. This book continues the dramatic story in the authors’ prizewinning Chinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674286702

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China Under Mao by Andrew G. Walder Pdf

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.

Author : Victor C. Falkenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066416937

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Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng by Victor C. Falkenheim Pdf

Author : Richard Madsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920736

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China's Catholics by Richard Madsen Pdf

After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implications for the development of a "civil society." Madsen knows China well and has spent extensive time there interviewing Chinese Catholics both young and old, the "true believers" and the less devout. Their stories reveal the tensions that have arisen even as political control over everyday life in China has loosened. Of particular interest are the rural-urban split in the church, the question of church authority, and the divisions between public and underground practices of church followers. All kinds of religious groups have revived and flourished in the post-Mao era. Protestants, Buddhists, Daoists, practitioners of folk religions, even intellectuals seeking more secularized answers to "ultimate" concerns are engaged in spiritual quests. Madsen is interested in determining if such quests contain the resources for constructing a more humane political order in China. Will religion contribute to or impede economic modernization? What role will the church play in the pluralization of society? The questions he raises in China's Catholics are important not only for China's political future but for all countries in transition from political totalitarianism.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040410

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Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals Pdf

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831253

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Rethinking Chinese Politics by Joseph Fewsmith Pdf

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

Author : Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315292038

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The Transformation of Rural China by Jonathan Unger Pdf

During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day. A leading specialist on rural China, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution, and then after the post-Mao disbandment of the collectives. This is a story of unexpected continuities amidst enormous change. Unger describes how rural administrations retain Mao-era characteristics - despite the major shifts that have occurred in the economic and social hierarchies of villages as collectivization and "class struggle" gave way to the slogan "to get rich is glorious." A chapter explores the private entrepreneurship that has blossomed in the prosperous parts of the countryside. Another focuses on the tensions and exploitation that have arisen as vast numbers of migrant laborers from poor districts have poured into richer ones. Another, based on five months of travel by jeep into impoverished villages in the interior, describes the dilemmas of under-development still faced by many tens of millions of farmers, and the ways in which government policies have inadvertently hurt their livelihoods.