New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution

New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution
Author: Tony Saich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317463900

These essays present fresh insights into the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from its founding in 1920 to its assumption of state power in 1949. They draw upon considerable archival resources which have recently become available.

New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution

New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution
Author: William A. Joseph
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.

China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives

China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives
Author: Guoguang Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317501209

As China moved from a planned to a market economy many people expected that China’s political system would similarly move from authoritarianism to democracy. It is now clear, however, that political liberalisation does not necessarily follow economic liberalisation. This book explores this apparent contradiction, presenting many new perspectives and new thinking on the subject. It considers the path of transition in China historically, makes comparisons with other countries and examines how political culture and the political outlook in China are developing at present. A key feature of the book is the fact that most of the contributors are China-born, Western-trained scholars, who bring deep knowledge and well informed views to the study.

China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Author: Woei Lien Chong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742518742

Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth. Contributions by: Anne-Marie Brady, Woei Lien Chong, Lowell Dittmer, Monika Gaenssbauer, Nick Knight, Stefan R. Landsberger, Nora Sausmikat, Barend J. ter Haar, Natascha Vittinghoff, and Lan Yang.

Eating Bitterness

Eating Bitterness
Author: Kimberley Ens Manning
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774859555

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.

New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution

New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution
Author: Tony Saich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317463919

These essays present fresh insights into the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from its founding in 1920 to its assumption of state power in 1949. They draw upon considerable archival resources which have recently become available.

New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952

New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952
Author: Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004285245

Essays in New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916·1952 reevaluate the experience of China's preeminent Christian university in an era of nationalism and revolution. Although the university was denounced by the Chinese Communists and critics as an elitist and imperialist enterprise irrelevant to China's real needs, the essays demonstrate that Yenching's emphasis on biculturalism, cultural exchange, and a broad liberal education combined with professional expertise ultimately are compatible with nation-building and a modern Chinese identity. They show that the university fostered transnational exchanges of knowledge, changed the lives of students and faculty, and responded to the pressures of nationalism, war, and revolution. Topics include efforts to make Christianity relevant to China's needs; promotion of professional expertise, gender relationships and coeducation; the liberal arts; Sino-American cultural interactions; and Yenching's ambiguous response to Chinese nationalism, Japanese invasion, and revolution.

Art and China's Revolution

Art and China's Revolution
Author: Melissa Chiu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Takes an in-depth look at the period between the 1950s and 1970s, focusing on the formation of a new visual culture and how it was given priority over artistic traditions such as ink painting. This was part of a broader national program to modernize China, and it had a great impact on artists and their work.

Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China

Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
Author: Laurence A. Schneider
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742553064

Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state.

New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Author: C. Lupke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007-12-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230610145

This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age.