China's Second Revolution

China's Second Revolution
Author: Harry Harding
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1987
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780815734611

"A study produced in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations." Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Author: Benno Weiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2020-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501749412

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.

The Tragedy of Liberation

The Tragedy of Liberation
Author: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408837595

The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.

The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective

The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective
Author: John E. Schrecker
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0275974766

This fully updated second edition provides a succinct and self-contained history of China. The text emphasizes the relationship between China's modern era and its past, employing a unique approach that presents the story in terms of traditional Chinese historical theories. When the West enters the scene in modern times, Schrecker fits its impact into the Chinese story, rather than the reverse, as is commonly done. This study demonstrates that traditional China was not homogeneous or changeless, thus offering a much-needed corrective to common stereotypes about other cultures that is essential for both classroom use and for the general reader. The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective, available here in a fully updated second edition, provides a succinct and self-contained history of China. The text emphasizes the relationship between China's modern era and its past, employing a unique approach that presents the story in terms of traditional Chinese historical theories. When the West enters the scene in modern times, Schrecker fits its impact into the Chinese story, rather than the reverse, as is commonly done. This study demonstrates that traditional China was not homogeneous or changeless, thus offering a much-needed corrective to common stereotypes about other cultures that is essential for both classroom use and for the general reader. Schrecker's approach permits a full appreciation of the connections between the contemporary scene and the Chinese past—an appreciation that is increasingly important as China moves away from typical Communist practices and returns to more traditional Chinese patterns—for example, recreating a lively entrepreneurial economy of the sort that characterized China for a thousand years. This edition brings China's story up to the present. An additional preface and map are included, along with an updated bibliography and supplemental notes. A new appendix details the traditional understanding of the key Chinese historiographical terms used in the book.

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution
Author: Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

A comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China's revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. This volume examines the memories of a range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship.

Staging Chinese Revolution

Staging Chinese Revolution
Author: Xiaomei Chen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 9780231166386

Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape -- The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation -- Returning a people's hero: a "new" legacy in the plays of Mao -- Staging Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader" -- Performing the "red classics": three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations -- Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"?

The Second Chinese Revolution

The Second Chinese Revolution
Author: E. Bregolat
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137475994

The Second Chinese Revolution explores some of the keys to understanding China, a country whose evolution already affects all of us. Beginning in 1978 - when China's GDP was only 6% of the USA's - the author takes us through the different aspects that have played a fundamental role in the country's change: China's eruption in world markets in the background of the West's economic crisis; its obsession with science and technology and its relentless march towards a 'knowledge society'; and a reassessment of the Tiananmen Square events of June 1989 and the ongoing debate on political reform. The book also includes a comparative analysis of the reforms in China and Russia in the last decades.

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
Author: Harold Isaacs
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608461092

The story of how China's modern development rests on the tragically supressed struggle for true socialism.

China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution
Author: John Peter Roberts
Publisher: Wellred Books
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1900007878

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the revolutionary history of China, from the early 20th century to the present era of crisis, aided by a wealth of research which cuts across the many historical distortions both of bourgeois academia and of the Chinese Communist Party. This book answers the questions: What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949? What forces pushed the Mao regime, despite its explicitly class-collaborationist strategy, to take measures which were objectively socialist and to establish the Chinese workers’ state? The Chinese Revolution was a practical test of both Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution and Mao’s theory of uninterrupted revolution by stages. Which theory matched reality? The degeneration of the Chinese People’s Republic to capitalism has been a second rigorous practical test of Trotsky’s analyses. Has his prognosis that without a political revolution to overthrow the regime, a Stalinist bureaucratic state would return to capitalism, been proved correct?