China On The Edge

Author : Bochuan He
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005661512

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China on the Edge by Bochuan He Pdf

"It's impossible to understand the People's Republic of China under its contemporary circumstances without He Bochuan's CHINA ON THE EDGE - a remarkable analysis of the social, economical, technological, & environmental forces which will determine China's future in the next century."--Harrison Salisbury. "Futurist He Bochuan focuses on such issues as China's overpopulation, illiteracy, inefficiency, pollution, deforestation, & loss of natural habitat, problems not unlike those faced in parts of the U.S. & relevant to our concerns because, with China comprising one-quarter of the World's population, these problems have an important bearing on the world's health & well-being...Some readers will find Bochuan's view of progress in China rather bleak, & his crisp, straightforward presentation of cold, hard facts offputting. But one can't help but be impressed & well informed by the author's thoroughgoing chronicle of issues that touch on all our lives."--Mary Banas-Booklist. "He marshalls a plenitude of charts, graphs, maps, & statistics to document his findings. But his tone is not that of the dry objective-sounding scientist; He is, in fact, furious. We can only hope that He Bochuan's book will arouse world opinion..."--The Progressive.

Author : Roy Bing Chan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295999005

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The Edge of Knowing by Roy Bing Chan Pdf

The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers� attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation-building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People�s Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.�

Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781108840330

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City on the Edge by Ho-fung Hung Pdf

A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015025199236

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Set Free in China by Peter Heller Pdf

Author : Franck BillŽ,Caroline Humphrey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674979482

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On the Edge by Franck BillŽ,Caroline Humphrey Pdf

A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the RussiaÐChina border, one of the worldÕs least understood and most politically charged frontiers. The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. ItÕs a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional war between two of the worldÕs political giants. Franck BillŽ and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the worldÕs most consequential and enigmatic borderlands. It is telling that, along a border consisting mainly of rivers, there is not a single operating passenger bridge. Two different worlds have emerged. On the Russian side, in territory seized from China in the nineteenth century, defense is prioritized over the economy, leaving dilapidated villages slumbering amid the forests. For its part, the Chinese side is heavily settled and increasingly prosperous and dynamic. Moscow worries about the imbalance, and both governments discourage citizens from interacting. But as BillŽ and Humphrey show, cross-border connection is a fact of life, whatever distant authorities say. There are marriages, friendships, and sexual encounters. There are joint businesses and underground deals, including no shortage of smuggling. Meanwhile some indigenous peoples, persecuted on both sides, seek to ÒreviveÓ their own alternative social groupings that span the border. And Chinese towns make much of their proximity to ÒEurope,Ó building giant Russian dolls and replicas of St. BasilÕs Cathedral to woo tourists. Surprising and rigorously researched, On the Edge testifies to the rich diversity of an extraordinary world haunted by history and divided by remote political decisions but connected by the ordinary imperatives of daily life.

Author : Uradyn Erden Bulag
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0742511448

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The Mongols at China's Edge by Uradyn Erden Bulag Pdf

This important study explores the multifaceted Mongol experience in China, past and present. Combining insights from anthropology, history, and postcolonial criticism, Uradyn Bulag avoids romanticizing Mongols either as pacified primitive Other or as gallant resistance fighters. Rather, he portrays them as a people whose communist background and standing in China's northern borderlands has informed their political efforts to harness or confront Chinese nationalistic and political hegemony. Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese and Mongol history and ethnicity, the author offers a fresh interpretation of China viewed from the perspective of its peripheries, and of minority nationalities in relation to the study of Chinese representation and minority self-representation. The author interrogates received wisdom about Chinese and minority nationalism by unraveling the Chinese discourse and practice of 'national unity.' He shows how the discourse was constructed over time through political rituals and sexuality in relation to Mongols and other non-Chinese peoples that hark back to Chinese-Xiongnu confrontations two millennia ago and Manchu conquest in the 17th and 18th centuries. Titular rulers of an autonomous region in which they constitute a minority, Mongols face enormous barriers in building and maintaining a socialist Mongolian nationality and a Mongolian language and culture. Acknowledging these difficulties, Bulag discusses a range of sensitive issues including the imbrication of nation, class, and ethnicity in the context of Mongol-Chinese relations, tensions inherent in writing a postrevolutionary history for a socialist nationality, and the moral dilemma of building a socialist model with Mongol characteristics. Charting the interface between a state-centered multinational Chinese polity and a primordial nationalist multiculturalism that aims to manage minority nationalities as 'cultures,' he explores Mongol ethnopolitical strategies to preserve their heritage.

Author : Denis Fred Simon,Cong Cao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521885133

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China's Emerging Technological Edge by Denis Fred Simon,Cong Cao Pdf

Addresses issues surrounding China's science and technology talent pool, and suggests significant policy implications for China and the international community.

Author : David Eimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408813904

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The Emperor Far Away by David Eimer Pdf

'Engaging ... this absorbing book is a tantalizing introduction to China's diversity and the ethnic and political dynamics at the extremes of its empire' Publishers Weekly 'Eimer has forged genuinely new ground as he recounts his travels to China's furthest corners ... A fascinating picture of a part of the country rarely examined' Daily Telegraph Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Among these lands are Xinjiang and the Uyghur Muslims who have historically dwelled there, now the subject of a hugely controversial social campaign by a central Chinese government determined to impose control over every square mile of its territory. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.

Author : Franck Billé,Caroline Humphrey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674269491

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On the Edge by Franck Billé,Caroline Humphrey Pdf

A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically charged frontiers. The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. It’s a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional war between two of the world’s political giants. Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the world’s most consequential and enigmatic borderlands. It is telling that, along a border consisting mainly of rivers, there is not a single operating passenger bridge. Two different worlds have emerged. On the Russian side, in territory seized from China in the nineteenth century, defense is prioritized over the economy, leaving dilapidated villages slumbering amid the forests. For its part, the Chinese side is heavily settled and increasingly prosperous and dynamic. Moscow worries about the imbalance, and both governments discourage citizens from interacting. But as Billé and Humphrey show, cross-border connection is a fact of life, whatever distant authorities say. There are marriages, friendships, and sexual encounters. There are joint businesses and underground deals, including no shortage of smuggling. Meanwhile some indigenous peoples, persecuted on both sides, seek to “revive” their own alternative social groupings that span the border. And Chinese towns make much of their proximity to “Europe,” building giant Russian dolls and replicas of St. Basil’s Cathedral to woo tourists. Surprising and rigorously researched, On the Edge testifies to the rich diversity of an extraordinary world haunted by history and divided by remote political decisions but connected by the ordinary imperatives of daily life.

Author : Margaret Hillenbrand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231559232

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On the Edge by Margaret Hillenbrand Pdf

Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. In these and many other recent cultural moments, China’s suppressed social strife simmers—or threatens to boil over. On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated. Margaret Hillenbrand argues that a vast underclass of Chinese workers exist in “zombie citizenship,” a state of dehumanizing exile from the law and its safeguards. Many others also feel precarious—sensing that they live on a precipice, with the constant fear of falling into this abyss of dispossession, disenfranchisement, and dislocation. Examining the volatile aesthetic forms that embody stifled social tensions and surging anxiety over zombie citizenship, Hillenbrand traces how people use culture to vent taboo feelings of rage, resentment, distrust, and disdain in scenarios rife with cross-class antagonism. On the Edge is highly interdisciplinary, fusing digital media, art history, literary criticism, and performance studies with citizenship, protest, and labor studies. It makes both the distinctive Chinese experience and the vital role of culture central to global understandings of how entrenched insecurity and civic jeopardy fray the bonds of the social contract.

Author : Carla Park Freeman,Drew Thompson,Johns Hopkins University. School of Advanced International Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Asia
ISBN : OCLC:900877324

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China on the Edge by Carla Park Freeman,Drew Thompson,Johns Hopkins University. School of Advanced International Studies Pdf

Author : Edward Wong
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984877413

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At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong Pdf

“This book’s power comes from Wong’s broad sense of the patterns of Chinese history, reflected in the lives of a father and son, and from his ability to toggle effortlessly between the epic and the intimate.” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic “Edward Wong’s exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America’s finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father’s journey—from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America—Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging.” —Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition, winner of the National Book Award One of Foreign Policy’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 An epic story of modern China that weaves a riveting family memoir with vital reporting by the New York Times diplomatic correspondent The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People’s Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao’s promise of a powerful China. His astonishing journey as a soldier took him from Manchuria during the Korean War to Xinjiang on the Central Asian frontier. In 1962, disillusioned with the Communist Party, he made plans for a desperate escape to Hong Kong. When Edward Wong became the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, he investigated his father’s mysterious past while assessing for himself the dream of a resurgent China. He met the citizens driving the nation’s astounding economic boom and global expansion—and grappling with the vortex of nationalistic rule under Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader since Mao. Following in his father’s footsteps, he witnessed ethnic struggles in Xinjiang and Tibet and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. And he had an insider’s view of the world’s two superpowers meeting at a perilous crossroads. Wong tells a moving chronicle of a family and a nation that spans decades of momentous change and gives profound insight into a new authoritarian age transforming the world. A groundbreaking book, At the Edge of Empire is the essential work for understanding China today.

Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : China
ISBN : 1108885691

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City on the Edge by Ho-fung Hung Pdf

For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period. Through careful analysis of vast economic data, a myriad of political events, and intricate networks of actors and ideas, Hung offers readers insight into the fraught economic, political, and social forces that led to the 2019 uprising, while situating the protests in the context of global finance and the geopolitics of the US-China rivalry. A provocative contribution to the discussion on Hong Kong's position in today's world, City on the Edge demonstrates that the resistance and repression of 2019-2020 does not spell the end of Hong Kong but the beginning of a long conflict with global repercussions.

Author : Cathryn H. Clayton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174973

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Sovereignty at the Edge by Cathryn H. Clayton Pdf

"How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city’s residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a “unique cultural identity” that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that challenged not only conventional definitions of sovereignty but also conventional notions of Chineseness as a subjectivity common to all Chinese people around the world. Various stories about sovereignty and Chineseness and their interrelationship were told in Macau in the 1990s. This book is about those stories and how they informed the lives of Macau residents in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them."

Author : John M. CARROLL,John M Carroll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029231

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Edge of Empires by John M. CARROLL,John M Carroll Pdf

In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.