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  • From Wang Shiwei To Liu Xiaob‪o‬ Prisoners of Literary Inquisition Under Communist Rule in China (1947-2010)

    The harshness of the modern Communist regime has far exceeded that of all past despots, as the PRC's founder Mao Zedong openly acknowledged: "What was Emperor Qin Shi Huang? He only buried 460 scholars, but we buried 46,000. During the suppression of counter-revolutionaries, didn't we kill some counterrevolutionary intellectuals? I've discussed this with pro-democracy advocates: 'You call us Qin ... Leer más

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  • The Journey of Liu Xiaobo

    From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

    As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People's Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation's prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China ... Leer más

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  • How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945

    de Gao Hua ...
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    This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-influenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how ... Leer más

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  • Empire of Silver

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    de Jin Xu ...
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    A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stabilityThis revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central ... Leer más

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  • The Killing Wind

    A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

    Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional ... Leer más

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  • The Journey of Liu Xiaobo

    From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

    Traducido por Stacy Mosher, Andrea Worden ...
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    The World Turned Upside Down

    A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    de Yang Jisheng ...
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    As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he ... Leer más

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    Tombstone

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    de Yang Jisheng ...
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    The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a ... Leer más

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