China After Mao

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509546527

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China's Leaders by David Shambaugh Pdf

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China’s dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders’ personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China’s modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.

Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684856353

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Mao's China and After by Maurice Meisner Pdf

Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.

Author : Roger Garside
Publisher : Berkley Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0451620879

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Coming Alive by Roger Garside Pdf

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526657442

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China After Mao by Frank Dikötter Pdf

_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the Year _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle. In charting four decades of so-called 'Reform and Opening Up' and China's emergence as a world power, Dikötter tells a fascinating tale of contradictions and illusions, of shadow banking, anti-corruption drives and extreme state wealth standing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's approach to the 2008 financial crash, the country's increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship – one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. Ultimately, the book concludes, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic sphere, but to resist it – and then defeat it. Praise for Frank Dikötter and the People's Trilogy: 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'The historian of China' Spectator 'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman 'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times 'Gripping and masterful' - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Author : Stanley B. Lubman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804743789

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Bird in a Cage by Stanley B. Lubman Pdf

This book analyzes the principal legal institutions that have emerged in China and considers implications for U.S. policy of the limits on China's ability to develop meaningful legal institutions.

Author : Roger Garside
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520391703

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China Coup by Roger Garside Pdf

An expert’s take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts—contrary to the prevailing consensus—that China’s leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d’état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China’s one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to democracy and the rule of law. Long-time diplomat and development banker Roger Garside draws on his deep knowledge of Chinese politics and economics first to develop a detailed scenario of how these events may unfold, and then—in the main body of the book—to explain why. His gripping, persuasive account of how Chinese leaders plot and plan away from the public eye is unique in published literature. Garside argues that under Xi’s overconfident leadership, China is on a collision course with an America that is newly awakened out of complacency. As Xi’s rivals look abroad, they are alarmed that he is blind to the reactions that China’s actions have provoked from the world’s strongest power and its allies. In domestic affairs, Xi’s rivals recognize that economic and social change without political reform have created problems that require not just new leaders but a new system of government. Security abroad and stability at home demand a revolution to which Xi is implacably opposed. To save China—and themselves—from catastrophe, they must remove him and end the dictatorship he is determined to defend. But their will and capacity to do so depend crucially on how liberal democracies act. Garside’s scenario shows America leading its allies in creating the conditions in which Xi’s rivals move against him.

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Ross Terrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015002263476

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The Future of China by Ross Terrill Pdf

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101870051

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The Souls of China by Ian Johnson Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).

Author : Philip P. Pan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416537052

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Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan Pdf

An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.

Author : Harry Harding
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815707282

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China's Second Revolution by Harry Harding Pdf

China has, since 1976, been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of renewal and reform. The obvious changes—the T-shirts, blue jeans, makeup and jewelry worn by Chinese youth; the disco music blaring from radios and loudspeakers on Chinese streets; the television antennas mushrooming from both urban apartment complexes and suburban peasant housing; the bustling free markets selling meat, vegetables and clothing in China's major cities—reflect a fundamental shift in the government's policy toward the economy and political life. Although doubts about the long-term commitment to reform arose after the student protests in December 1986 and the dismissal of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang in January 1987, the scope of reform has been so broad and the pace of change so rapid, that the post-Mao era fully warrants Den Xiaoping's description of it as the "second revolution" undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party.

Author : Heung Shing Liu
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039643981

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China After Mao by Heung Shing Liu Pdf

Author : Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760462499

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Afterlives of Chinese Communism by Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere Pdf

Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.

Author : Leslie Evans
Publisher : Pathfinder Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0913460621

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China After Mao by Leslie Evans Pdf

Author : Deborah Davis,Stevan Harrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520082222

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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era by Deborah Davis,Stevan Harrell Pdf

This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.