The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View

The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View
Author: Dorothea A.L. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315490390

Outlines the political pressures that have shaped the writing and interpretation of modern world history in post-1949 China, and assesses the impact of these pressures and political themes through three case studies: the 17th-century English revolution, the Paris Commune, and the treatment of the Th

The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View

The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View
Author: Dorothea A. L. Martin
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873326568

Outlines the political pressures that have shaped the writing and interpretation of modern world history in post-1949 China, and assesses the impact of these pressures and political themes through three case studies: the 17th-century English revolution, the Paris Commune, and the treatment of the Th

The Paradox of Power in a People's Republic of China Middle School

The Paradox of Power in a People's Republic of China Middle School
Author: Martin Schoenhals
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134943342

This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the interplay among criticism, face and shame.

Studying History

Studying History
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137478608

This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based sources and avoiding plagiarism will equip you with the tools you need to succeed on your course.

World History and National Identity in China

World History and National Identity in China
Author: Xin Fan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108905307

Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has persisted. Xin Fan examines the ways in which historians working on the world beyond China from within China have attempted to construct narratives that challenge nationalist readings of the Chinese past and the influence that these historians have had on the formation of Chinese identity. He traces the ways in which generations of historians, from the late Qing through the Republican period, through the Mao period to the relative moment of 'opening' in the 1980s, have attempted to break cross-cultural boundaries in writing an alternative to the national narrative.

Local Government and Politics in China

Local Government and Politics in China
Author: Yang Zhong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131746589X

After over a decade of administrative and economic reform in mainland China, the center has become increasingly remote and less important for many localities. In many ways, the mobilization capacity of the central government has been weakened. Central government policies are often ignored and local officials are often more interested in personal projects than in centrally directed economic plans. In this study of local government and politics in China, the author explores when and why local government officials comply with policy directives from above. Drawing on interviews with government officials in various municipalities and a review of county records and other government documents, he provides the first in-depth look at policy implementation at the county and township levels in the PRC. The book examines the impact of the Chinese cadre system on the behavior of local officials, local party and government structure, relationships among various levels of Chinese local government, policy supervision mechanisms at local levels, village governance of China, and more.

A Global History of Modern Historiography

A Global History of Modern Historiography
Author: Georg G Iggers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317895002

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.

Designing History in East Asian Textbooks

Designing History in East Asian Textbooks
Author: Gotelind Mueller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136826912

This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. The chapters also examine the trend of ‘common textbook initiatives’, which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim of helping to defuse tensions arguably fuelled by existing practices of mutual (mis)representation. These are analysed in relation to the East Asian political context, and compared with previous and ongoing endeavours in other parts of the world, particularly Europe, which have been keenly observed by East Asian practitioners. Written by a group of international education experts, chapters discuss the enduring focus on the role of curricula in inculcating homogenous visions of the national self, and indeed homogenized visions of significant 'others'. Including contributions from scholars and curriculum developers involved personally in the writing of national and multi-national history textbooks this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian education, Asian history and comparative education studies. Gotelind Müller is Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Morning Sun

Morning Sun
Author: Laifong Leung
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315288281

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China since the 1970s years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.