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  • Fractured Rebellion

    The Beijing Red Guard Movement

    by Andrew G. Walder ...
    Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure.Most ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Agents of Disorder

    Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

    by Andrew G. Walder ...
    Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today’s governments.By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People’s Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • China Under Mao

    A Revolution Derailed

    by Andrew G. Walder ...
    China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.“Walder ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Civil War in Guangxi

    The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery

    by Andrew G. Walder ...
    Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the site of the most severe and extensive violence observed anywhere in China during that period of upheaval. Several cities saw urban combat ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Decade of Upheaval

    The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

    by Dong Guoqiang, Andrew G. Walder ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources—including work diaries, interviews, internal party documents, and military directives ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • China in Disintegration

    by James E. Sheridan ...
    After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • China's Bitter Victory

    War with Japan, 1937-45

    by James C. Hsiung, Steven I. Levine ...
    "China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • An Essential History of China: Why it Matters to Americans

    by William John Cox ...
    An Essential History of China: Why it Matters to Americans is exactly what the title says. In 150 pages, it reviews the ancient and dynastic history of China to provide a perspective about the depth and accomplishments of China in human history. The book documents the humiliation of China by the Western corporate powers in the Nineteenth Century and the immense suffering of its people during World ... Read more

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  • Proletarian Power

    Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution

    by Elizabeth Perry ...
    This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Understanding the War in Kosovo

    Edited by Florian Bieber, Zidas Daskalovski ...
    The war in Kosovo has been a defining moment in post-Cold War Europe. Kosovo has great importance beyond the Balkans as the most ambitious attempt of the international community to prevent internal conflicts and rebuild a society destroyed by war and ethnic cleansing. As the danger of ethnic conflict prevails in the region and elsewhere around the world, the experience of Kosovo offers important ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Yugoslavia and After

    A Study in Fragmentation, Despair and Rebirth

    by David A. Dyker, Ivan Vejvoda ...
    This new book presents contributions by leading authorities on the origins of the Balkan crisis, the reasons for the decay and dissolution of the old Yugoslavia, the nature of the new regimes, the prospects for solution of the remaining conflicts and for the building of viable successor states. ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD