The Fading Of The Maoist Vision

Author : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136574139

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The Fading of the Maoist Vision by Rhoads Murphey Pdf

First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities. The book: · Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its pursuit of the Gandhian ideal.

Author : James A. Clapp
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412850704

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The City by James A. Clapp Pdf

The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged more than three thousand quotations—epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations—on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers throughout history. This volume, with contributions from speakers, poets, song writers, politicians philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, historians, social scientists, humorists, architects, journalists, and travelers from and to many lands is designed to be used by writers, speechmakers, students, and scholars on cities and urban life. Clapp’s text is striking for its sharp contrasts of urban and rural life and the urbanization process in different historical times and geographical areas. This second edition includes four hundred new entries, updated birth dates and occupations of quoted authors, and an expanded and updated introduction and preface. Clapp also added new introduction pages for each section containing pictures and unique quotations. The indexes have also been expanded to include more subjects and cities. The scope of this book is international, including entries on most major and many minor cities of the world. It is noteworthy for its pleasures as well as its insights.

Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Jr. Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000661866

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Imaging the City by Jr. Warner Pdf

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and innovations of promise.The focus on planning practice prompted the editors to analyze images that are now at work in our cities. For Vale and Warner, all city design and constructions offer material that people should include in images of their environment. The built and building city are part of the experience of all city dwellers; it is theirs to incorporate, interpret, or ignore. Essays included in this text trace the interplay between physical objects of planners and architects and the social experience and outlooks of image makers and their audiences.Imaging the City explores urban image making from civic boosterism of medieval cities to iconic imagery of Times Square. Vale and Warner bring together urban historians, geographers, city planners, architects, and cultural commentators to analyze the creation of urban imagery from the signature skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur to the re-creation of the South Bronx and the use of city images in film, literature, television, and on the Internet. Urban dwellers, urban planners, architects, municipal officials, sociologists, urban historians - all will perceive their worlds with a heightened sense of awareness after reading this book.

Author : Christopher J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720284

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China In The Post-utopian Age by Christopher J. Smith Pdf

China in the Post-Utopian Age is an interdisciplinary book about China in the post-utopian age, focusing on the transformations that have occurred during the leaderships of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : David Zweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674011759

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Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 by David Zweig Pdf

During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move rural China to even higher stages of collectivism. David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. The limited institutionalization of the system allowed the radicals to promote their principles through "policy winds," speeches generated by newspaper articles, networks of political allies, and organized visits; they also linked their policies to ongoing political and economic campaigns. In spite of this radical ideology and frequent upheavals in the countryside, Zweig finds that Chinese peasants had no ideological affinity for Mao's theory of the continuing revolution and reacted to each policy change on the basis of how it affected their personal, family, or collective interests. Despite intense propaganda, cadres adjusted the impact of these radical policies so that the peasants' conservative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to improve their own lot remained intact. Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.

Author : Kristin Stapleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108998772

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The Modern City in Asia by Kristin Stapleton Pdf

Kristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years. In the early twentieth century, activists took advantage of the new significance of the city to pursue a wide variety of goals. Thus, the concept of the modern city played an important role in Asia, despite much critical commentary on the ideals associated with it. By the 1940s, the city yielded its political centrality to the nation. Still, modern cities remained an important marker of national achievement during the Cold War. In recent decades, cities have continued to play a central role in economic and cultural affairs in Asia, but the concept of the modern city has evolved. Asian ideas about urban governance and visions of future cities are significantly shaping that evolution.

Author : Chris Bramall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134190515

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Chinese Economic Development by Chris Bramall Pdf

This is the first textbook on Chinese economic development that will be suitable for an undergraduate audience and provide and accessible, thematic overview of the growth of one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

Author : M. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230101050

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Fleeing the City by M. Thompson Pdf

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.

Author : J. Gregor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137379498

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Marxism and the Making of China by J. Gregor Pdf

An assessment of the influence of the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on revolutionary developments in China. The work covers the period from the first appearance of the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong until its full transformation by Deng Xiaoping - into a nationalist, developmental, single-party, developmental dictatorship.

Author : Lenski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004477995

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Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology by Lenski Pdf

Author : Martin Whyte
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804769419

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Myth of the Social Volcano by Martin Whyte Pdf

This book reports the results of the first systematic nationwide survey in China of the attitudes that ordinary Chinese citizens have toward increased inequalities generated by the market reform program launched in 1978.

Author : Diane M. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89049046683

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A Comparative Study of the Social Visions of M. K. Gandhi and Mao Zedong by Diane M. Jones Pdf

Author : Eric Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429719196

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Coming Full Circle by Eric Jones Pdf

Analyzing the long-term, historical development of the major economies around the Pacific Rim in language aimed at the general reader, Coming Full Circle throws light on the most important relationships in the region today as well as on the prospects for future economic development and political cooperation. The authors begin with a critique of the popular notion of an integrated "Pacific region," paying particular attention to the influence of geography and environment on population distribution and patterns of regional economic activity. Their study covers the diverse indigenous development of pre-European times, later periods of direct European influence, and the evolution of modern-day urban societies in the region. Finally, they track the rise of the United States and Japan as the dominant regional economic powers and forecast changes we can expect to see in the years ahead, noting in particular the increasing importance of China.

Author : Li Hou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781684170944

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Building for Oil by Li Hou Pdf

"Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People’s Republic, describing Daqing’s rise and fall as a national model city. Daqing oil field was the most profitable state-owned enterprise and the single largest source of state revenue for almost three decades, from the 1950s through the early 1980s. The book traces the roots and maturation of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies during a time of unprecedented economic growth.The metamorphosis of Daqing’s physical landscape in many ways exemplified the major challenges and changes taking place in Chinese state and society. Through detailed, often personal descriptions of the process of planning and building Daqing, the book illuminates the politics between party leaders and elite ministerial cadres and examines the diverse interests, conflicts, tensions, functions, and dysfunctions of state institutions and individuals. Building for Oil records the rise of the “Petroleum Group” in the central government while simultaneously revealing the everyday stories and struggles of the working men and women who inhabited China’s industrializing landscape—their beliefs, frustrations, and pursuit of a decent life."