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China: An Interpretive History by Joseph Levenson,Franz Schurmann 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 1969.
The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800 by Pamela Kyle Crossley Pdf
This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities. Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability – the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound's translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China’s surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading Places China’s history within the context of global change
China's Revolutions in the Modern World by Rebecca E. Karl Pdf
A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation’s “great rejuvenation,” a story narrated as the return of China to its “rightful” place at the center of the world. In China’s Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today’s capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle, in mass democratic movements and global war, in socialism and anti-socialism, in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through China’s successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.
Chinese Business History by Robert Gardella,Andrea McElderry,Jane K. Leonard Pdf
This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature. By introducing various interpretations of China's economic development (including the impact of the West, modernization, and Marxist, Weberian, and revisionist approaches), as well as Western business history theory, the book establishes a basis for constructing an appropriate framework for future research.
When China Unites an Interpretive History of the Chinese Revolution by Harry Gannes Pdf
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Author : Ang Cheng Guan Publisher : University of Hawaii Press Page : 322 pages File Size : 50,9 Mb Release : 2018-02-28 Category : History ISBN : 9780824873462
The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry. When viewed through a Southeast Asian lens, the Cold War can be traced back to the interwar years and antagonisms between indigenous communists and their opponents, the colonial governments and their later successors. Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines join Vietnam and Indonesia as key regional players with their own agendas, as evidenced by the formation of SEATO and the Bandung conference. The threat of global Communism orchestrated from Moscow, which had such a powerful hold in the West, passed largely unnoticed in Southeast Asia, where ideology took a back seat to regime preservation. China and its evolving attitude toward the region proved far more compelling: the emergence of the communist government there in 1949 helped further the development of communist networks in the Southeast Asian region. Except in Vietnam, the Soviet Union’s role was peripheral: managing relationships with the United States and China was what preoccupied Southeast Asia’s leaders. The impact of the Sino-Soviet split is visible in the decade-long Cambodian conflict and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. This succinct volume not only demonstrates the complexity of the region, but for the first time provides a narrative that places decolonization and nation-building alongside the usual geopolitical conflicts. It focuses on local actors and marshals a wide range of literature in support of its argument. Most importantly, it tells us how and why the Cold War in Southeast Asia evolved the way it did and offers a deeper understanding of the Southeast Asia we know today.
Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with discrimination.
An Interpretive History of the Valiant Chinese in America by Hanson Chan Pdf
This is the "Simplified Chinese" version of An Interpretive History of the Valiant Chinese in America written by the author. It is a thoughtful interpretation, rather than a simple narration, of the Chinese both as a group of immigrants and as a minority from Asia seeking for a better tomorrow in the land of the United States. It reveals the hardships and the uncommon encountering of the early arrivals, and explains the processes and changes that they had endured for survival. Besides describing most of the harsh experiences and the hard earned respects along a lengthy path of struggles, the author also provides, or attempts to give, a comprehensive insight on events that unfairly happened to all the Chinese, and most conditions did not improve until they as a downgraded race have been lawfully recognized and cordially accepted as citizens with the basic sharing of rights like the others. Needless to say, this book recounts the different stages of the Chinese difficulties and struggles from the past to the present, before they could gradually ascend as a whole. However, in examining issues regarding discrimination and other injustice, it ventures to cover not only the historical facts of how-things-happened, but also explores the interrelated causes of why-things-happened. Another distinctive feature of this book was the focus of the main story line of the valiant group among the Chinese immigrants in the 20th century as well as among the Chinese-Americans, who initially started to explore ways to change the fate for themselves and for their motherland, i.e., China, especially the efforts they made since the Second World War and thereafter. A major differentiation of itself from a number of similar books on subject of the history of the Chinese in USA, interestingly, is that it reveals the often untold mystery of motivation and confrontation among the Chinese with regard to their views on Chinese politics being debated for support in cities of the United States, and that remained a strangely ongoing phenomena which appeared from day to day in many of Chinese communities; if grouped by status of identities, those involved in the rift were immigrants old and new, sometimes included foreign students from either Taiwan or Hong Kong, and joined by Chinese-Americans by birth or citizens of those who might have legally claimed US citizenship through their own merits. It was an unending fight with polemics among Chinese outside of China. Yet, for whatever intention, a general picture of the crawls showed that whoever took part in such an effort more or less would all entangle themselves with issues uncompromising between the KMT and the CCP of the Chinese politics, which played out aboard in their communal arena. Therefore, to elaborate and discuss that, topics related to events in the United States, in Taiwan, and in the mainland of China are reviewed. As for the bravery of the so-called "valiant", it is understandably meant to refer to those who had dared to fight against injustice, dared to pursue their ideal, and dared to take action. In short, it is also a metaphor to honor those who fit such a meaning in the long struggle of improving the status for all the Chinese in America, since this book is about all of them who came to USA in seeking dreams as a start, and for whose who stride along as descendants of the early forefathers; no matter immigrants or citizens they might be, they all need something called "courage". It is always the braves who took the leads and this book is dedicated to the innovative spirit of such few.
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 by David E. Mungello Pdf
In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world.
A Companion to Chinese History by Michael Szonyi Pdf
A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day. Covers the major trends in the study of Chinese history from antiquity to the present day Considers the latest scholarship of historians working in China and around the world Explores a variety of long-range questions and themes which serves to bridge the conventional divide between China’s traditional and modern eras Addresses China’s connections with other nations and regions and enables non-specialists to make comparisons with their own fields Features discussion of traditional topics and chronological approaches as well as newer themes such as Chinese history in relation to sexuality, national identity, and the environment
