People S Republic

Author : Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786635181

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The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski Pdf

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

Author : Kurt Schlichter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0988402947

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People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter Pdf

Author : Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : China..
ISBN : UCSD:31822002966505

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China! Inside the People's Republic by Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Pdf

Author : William A. Brown,Urgrunge Onon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171965

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History of the Mongolian People’s Republic by William A. Brown,Urgrunge Onon Pdf

An annotated translation of the third volume of the detailed, comprehensive history of the Mongolian People’s Republic.

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 099663553X

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Complicities by Arif Dirlik Pdf

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting as well as most recent scholarship ignore the part played by forces emanating from the global capitalist system in the PRC's failures as well as its successes. China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in Complicities on a wide range of concerns, from the Tiananmen Square tragedy to the spread of Confucius Institutes across more than four hundred campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred in the United States. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Dirlik's discussion stresses foreign complicity in encouraging the PRC's imperial ambitions and disdain for human rights. Eager for economic gain, the United States, Europe, and other Western countries have been complicit in supporting the PRC's authoritarian capitalism. Such support has been a key factor in nourishing the PRC's hegemonic aspirations. Infatuation with the PRC's incorporation in global capitalism has been important to Communist Party leaders' ability to suppress all memory and mention of Tiananmen, and their continuing abuse of human rights. More recently, the PRC's focus has migrated to "soft power" as a means of expanding global influence, with organizations like the Confucius Institutes exploiting foreign educational institutions to promote the political aims of the state.

Author : Ye Sang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938861

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China Candid by Ye Sang Pdf

Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under—and often despite—the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms—reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.

Author : Zhiqun Zhu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814313506

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The People's Republic of China Today by Zhiqun Zhu Pdf

Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges today. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet an inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power.

Author : Maurice S. Crandall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469652672

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These People Have Always Been a Republic by Maurice S. Crandall Pdf

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.

Author : Alan P.L. Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429719356

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Mass Politics In The People's Republic by Alan P.L. Liu Pdf

Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country's major social groups. It explores how public opinion contributes to a mass political culture in China.

Author : Gucheng Li
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : China
ISBN : 9622016154

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A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China by Gucheng Li Pdf

"A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : Henry Yuhuai He
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315500430

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Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China by Henry Yuhuai He Pdf

Far more than a simple glossary, this unique resource provides a detailed lexicography of political and social life in China today, and deepens our understanding of the last twenty years of enormous change in the People's Republic. Each of the 1,600 entries (1) is rendered in Chinese characters; (2) is alphabetized according to pinyin, the Chinese phonetic alphabet; (3) is translated into English; and (4) is explained in terms of the situation in which it first appeared and how its meaning shifted over time. In addition to the main body of definitions and annotations, there are three appendices, abbreviations, a name index, and a bibliography.

Author : Chang-tai Hung
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824886905

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Politics of Control by Chang-tai Hung Pdf

Using a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people’s minds using multiple methods of control. With newly available archival material, internal circulars, memoirs, interviews, and site visits, the book explores the fascinating world of mass media, book publishing, education, religion, parks, museums, and architecture during the formative years of the republic. When the Communists assumed power in 1949, they projected themselves as not only military victors but also as peace restorers and cultural protectors. Believing that they needed to manage culture in every arena, they created an interlocking system of agencies and regulations that was supervised at the center. Documents show, however, that there was internal conflict. Censors, introduced early at the Beijing Daily, operated under the “twofold leadership” of municipal-level editors but with final authorization from the Communist Party Propaganda Department. Politics of Control looks behind the office doors, where the ideological split between Party chairman Mao Zedong and head of state Liu Shaoqi made pragmatic editors bite their pencil erasers and hope for the best. Book publishing followed a similar multi-tier system, preventing undesirable texts from getting into the hands of the public. In addition to designing a plan to nurture a new generation of Chinese revolutionaries, the party-state developed community centers that served as cultural propaganda stations. New urban parks were used to stage political rallies for major campaigns and public trials where threatening sects could be attacked. A fascinating part of the story is the way in which architecture and museums were used to promote ethnic unity under the Chinese party-state umbrella. Besides revealing how interlocking systems resulted in a pervasive method of control, Politics of Control also examines how this system was influenced by the Soviet Union and how, nevertheless, Chinese nationalism always took precedence. Chang-tai Hung convincingly argues that the PRC’s formative period defined the nature of the Communist regime and its future development. The methods of cultural control have changed over time, but many continue to have relevance today.

Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Frank N. Pieke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351761673

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People's Republic of China, Volumes I and II by Frank N. Pieke Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.