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  • Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

    The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

    de Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series series The Cold War in Asia
    Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the ROC government paid much special attention to these anti-communist heroes (fangong yishi). Their choices to leave behind the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Visualizing Modern China

    Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

    de James A. Cook, Matthew D. Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael G. Chang, Madeleine Yue Dong, Susan Fernsebner, Christian Hess0, Lu Liu1, Cecily McCaffrey2, Andrew D. Morris3, Charles D. Musgrove4, Zhiwei Xiao5, Xiaowei Zheng6, E. Elena Songster7, Jeremy Brown8 ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Japanese Taiwan

    Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

    Edición de Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Colonial Project, National Game

    A History of Baseball in Taiwan

    de Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series Libro 6 - Asia Pacific Modern
    In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Tiananmen

    25th Anniversary Edition

    de Morgan Chua ...
    The events that took place at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China on 4 June 1989 attracted international attention and sparked outrage at the Chinese government’s military advance on student demonstrators. Twenty-five years on, a new generation of Chinese has grown up in a country that continues to grapple with issues of political liberalisation, democracy and censorship.First published in 1989, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

    de Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Fact in Fiction

    1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

    de Kristin Stapleton ...
    Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • DILEMMAS OF VICTORY

    Edición de Jeremy Brown ...
    This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Land Wars

    The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution

    de Brian DeMare ...
    Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to fundamentally transform the countryside. Across this vast terrain loyal Maoists dispersed, intending to categorize poor farmers into prescribed ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • City Versus Countryside in Mao's China

    Negotiating the Divide

    de Jeremy Brown ...
    The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Mao

    The Unknown Story

    de Jung Chang, Jon Halliday ...
    The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    de Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD