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Author : Barme Minf,Geremie Barme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0374522235
Author : Geremie Barmé,Linda Jaivin
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : China
ISBN : 0812919092
Author : Geremie Barme
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0809045729
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dreams
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004932344
Author : Geremie Barmé
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 9780231106153
China, Geremie R. Barmé notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what happens when global culture and Chinese capitalist-socialism meet in the marketplace? In the Redinvestigates what goes on behind the rhetoric of the official Chinese government and the dissident community and provides a unique perspective on mainstream Western perceptions of cultural developments, artistic freedom, and popular lifestyles in China today. Illustrated with fascinating cartoons and photographs and rich with facts, anecdotes, and events, In the Red exposes the complex relationship between "official" culture (produced, supported, or sanctioned by the government) and "nonofficial" or countercultures (especially among urban youths and dissidents). Two key and contrasting events loom large in this narrative: the 1989 protests that ended with the June 4 massacre and a nationwide purge, and Deng Xiaoping's 1992 "tour of the south," in which he emphasized the need for radical economic reform. Although a level of political tolerance has evolved since the 1970s, Barmé sheds light on the significance of the intermittent denunciations of artists, ideas, and works.
Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191506703
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century', introducing readers to important but often overlooked events in China's past, such as the bloody Taiping Civil War (1850-1864), which had a death toll far higher than the roughly contemporaneous American Civil War. It also helps readers see more familiar landmarks in Chinese history in new ways, such as the Opium War (1839-1842), the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. This is one of the first major efforts — and in many ways the most ambitious to date — to come to terms with the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, taking readers from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the last few years (the Beijing Games, the financial crisis, and China's rise to global economic pre-eminence) which have so fundamentally altered Western views of China and China's place in the world.
Author : David Goodman,Richard Robison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136157035
This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally. From a western perspective the rise of the emergent business and professional class may seem very familiar. However, it is far from clear that those newly enriched by the processes of modernization in East and South East Asia are readily comparable with the middle classes of the West. For example, civil and human rights seem to play a different role in social, political and economic change, and the State is clearly more central as an agent of economic development. This volume is the essential introduction to the series, and identifies the 'new rich' phenomenon in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The contributors demonstrate that the key to understanding the 'new rich' is to realise that they are neither a single category or class, but in each setting a series of different socio-political groups who have a common inheritance from the process of rapid economic growth.
Author : Van
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136174636
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015081723556
Author : Elizabeth J. Perry,Mark Selden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415560733
This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance & protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history & political science, & covers issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict & suicide.
Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139789042
Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed one of the largest nations on earth and inspired revolutionary movements across the world. Even today Mao lives on in China, where he is regarded by many as a near-mythical figure, and in the West, where a burgeoning literature continues to debate his memory. In this book, leading scholars from different generations and around the world offer a critical evaluation of the life and legacy of China's most famous - some would say infamous - son. The book brings the scholarship on Mao up to date, and its alternative perspectives equip readers to assess for themselves the nature of this mercurial figure and his significance in modern Chinese history.
Author : Nicholas Jose
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743051528
This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China on the writer's own work and life. Nicholas Jose is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. He was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, between 1987 and 1990, and has taught Australian Studies in China.
Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674044223
Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese youth, the grand appeal of Marxism-Leninism, the terrible battle against fascist Japan, and the long, destructive civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with his father and two million Nationalists. He led the brutal suppression of dissent on the island and was a major player in the cold, sometimes hot war between Communist China and America. By reacting to changing economic, social, and political dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms on the mainland, and other international events, he led Taiwan on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's son.
Author : J. Unger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317455141
The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions in prosperous Fuijan Province on the south China coast were somewhat different from those in Manchuria or inland Xi'an or the country towns of Hunan. The variety of the reactions is a barometer of the political and economic climate in contemporary China. In this book, Western China specialists who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them.
Author : Benjamin Penny
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226655017
Concentrates on the beliefs and practices of Falun Gong members.