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Beyond Regimes - China And India Compared

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 China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational forces. Beyond Regimes explores local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era with a focus on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and investment.
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Red Legacies In China - Cultural Afterlives Of The Communist Revolution

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 In Red Legacies in China, Mao-era legacies serve as a framework to examine the cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand Chinaâ€™s continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Essays discuss arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials.
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Mao'S Invisible Hand

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 Observers have been predicting the demise of Chinaâ€™s Communist state since Maoâ€™s death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC.
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New Perspectives On The Cultural Revolution

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 Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.
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Chinese Society On The Eve Of Tiananmen

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 "By the late 1970s, state communism was everywhere in retreat. First in Eastern Europe, then in China and the Soviet Union, party leaders were compelled to devise fundamental departures from the economic procedures and structures they had confidently installed at the outset of their revolutionary victories. Perhaps no country departed more rapidly from communist economic structures than China. Within five years of Mao Zedong's death, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping had dismantled the people's communes and created a range of markets that established the institutional foundations for a new form of socialism. But, unlike the Soviets and Eastern Europeans, the Chinese reformers refused to consider parallel changes in political institutions. The demonstrations in Beijing in 1989 made it clear that post-Mao economic policies had created unavoidable political consequences for the society and its leaders. In individual case studies, the twelve contributors to this volume document the uneven decollectivization and decentralization of China's economy in the post-Mao years and the great diversity of the social and political consequences. They deal with the effects of the more materialistic and individualistic reward system on both public and private life in the countryside and in urban settings and the new expectations that economic changes engendered."
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Secret Speeches Of Chairman Mao

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 "In 1957 and 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong led China into two major experiments: the Hundred Flowers policy of encouraging literary and political free expression and the economic Great Leap Forward. Each was a disaster. Repression followed the first when it became clear that intellectuals would criticize the Communist Party itself; famine followed the second. During two crucial years when the movements were being initiated, however, Mao addressed various Party groups behind closed doors to explain the new policies and exhort compliance. Recorded at the time and collected for limited circulation in the 1960s by his admirers among the Red Guards, the speeches, question-and-answer sessions, and letters here translated have never before been published in China or the West. These new, candid materials revise our understanding of how the policies developed and reveal not only the extent of Mao's power but the startling flights his untethered thought could take. Introductory essays by Roderick MacFarquhar, Benjamin Schwartz, Eugene Wu, Merle Goldman, and Timothy Cheek provide a context for evaluating and interpreting the nineteen texts translated in this volume."
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Ai Ssu-Ch'I'S Contribution To The Development Of Chinese Marxism

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Ai Ssu-Ch'I'S Contribution To The Development Of Chinese Marxism

by Joshua A. Fogel

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 Reminiscence literature in China has reserved a special place of prominence for Ai Ssu-ch'i, not only because he was so admired by Mao, but also because he devoted his life wholeheartedly to the Party. Fogel traces this devotion via Ai's crucial role in spreading Marxist-Leninist thought among Chinese intellectuals.
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China'S Intellectuals And The State - In Search Of A New Relationship

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 "Today's intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of criticizing abuses of political power. Marxist intellectuals judge the state's practices on the basis of Communist ideals. Others prefer the May Fourth spirit, dedicated to the principles of free scholarly and artistic expression. The Chinese government, for its part, has undulated in its treatment of intellectuals, applying restraints when free expression threatened to get "out of control," relaxing controls when state policies required the cooperation, good will, and expertise of intellectuals. In this stimulating work, twelve China scholars examine that troubled and changing relationship. They focus primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China's renewed quest for modernization have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making. Specialists examine the situation with respect to economists, lawyers, scientists and technocrats, writers, and humanist scholars in the climate of Deng Xiaoping's policies, and speculate about future developments. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone interested in the changing scene in contemporary China and in its relations with the outside world."
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Political Economy Of Reform In Post-Mao China

by Christine Wong e Elizabeth J. Perry

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 "In December 1978 the Chinese Communist Party announced dramatic changes in policy for both agriculture and industry that seemed to repudiate the Maoist "road to socialism" in favor of certain "capitalist" tendencies. The motives behind these changes, the nature of the reforms, and their effects upon the economy and political life of countryside and city are here analyzed by five political scientists and five economists. Their assessments of ongoing efforts to implement the new policies provide a timely survey of what is currently happening in China. Part One delineates the content of agricultural reforms-including decollectivization and the provisions for households to realize private profits-and examines their impact on production, marketing, peasant income, family planning, local leadership, and rural violence. Part Two examines the evolution of industrial reforms, centering on enterprise profit retention, and their impact on political conflict, resource allocation, investment, material and financial flows, industrial structure, and composition of output. Through all ten chapters one theme is conspicuous-the multiple interactions between politics and economics in China's new directions since the Cultural Revolution."
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Science And Technology In Post-Mao China

by Denis Fred Simon e Merle Goldman

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 Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past and speculating about future trends.
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Uncanny Beliefs

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Uncanny Beliefs - Superstition In Modern Chinese History

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 Uncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what â€œsuperstitionâ€ has meant in modern Chinaâ€"and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an urgent target of state intervention. This volume links the study of superstition to the histories of science, religion, gender, state building, and popular culture.
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Chinese Animation - Multiplicities In Motion

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 Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmediality of Chinese animation. From silent short to CGI, it covers more than a century of animation across different languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese.
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Popular Protest In China

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 Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.
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Chinese Animation - Multiplicities In Motion

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 Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmediality of Chinese animation. From silent short to CGI, it covers more than a century of animation across different languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese.
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In Praise Of Failure - Four Lessons In Humility

by Costica Bradatan

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 Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure.
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Evolutionary Governance In China - Stateâ€“Society Relations Under Authoritarianism

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 An evolutionary framework is used to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. This approach provides insight into the circumstances wherein the party-state exerts its coercive power versus engaging in more flexible responses or policy adaptations.
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Beyond Regimes - China And India Compared

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 China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational forces. Beyond Regimes explores local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era with a focus on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and investment.
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Red Legacies In China - Cultural Afterlives Of The Communist Revolution

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 In Red Legacies in China, Mao-era legacies serve as a framework to examine the cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand Chinaâ€™s continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Essays discuss arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials.
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From May Fourth To June Fourth - Fiction And Film In Twentieth-Century China

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 What do Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966â€"1976) have in common with media of the May Fourth movement (1918â€"1930)? This book demonstrates several shared aims: to liberate narrative arts from aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity.
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Science And Technology In Post-Mao China

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 Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past and speculating about future trends.
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Zouping In Transition - The Process Of Reform In Rural North China

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 Zouping offers important general lessons for the study of China's rural transformation. The authors in this volume, all participants in a unique field research project undertaken from 1988 to 1992, address questions concerning the role of local governments as economic actors, market reform, and inequality.
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Engendering China - Women, Culture, And The State

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 This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in a cross-culturalâ€"and interdisciplinaryâ€"dialogue. For the first time, the voices of China-based scholars are heard alongside scholars positioned in the United States.
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The Paradox Of Chinaâ€™S Post-Mao Reforms

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 Chinaâ€™s move to an open market economy ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked an unprecedented economic boom. Yet this success came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays here explore this contradiction.
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Maoâ€™S Invisible Hand - The Political Foundations Of Adaptive Governance In China

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 Observers have been predicting the demise of Chinaâ€™s Communist state since Maoâ€™s death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC.
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