Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis


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This is a collection of essays exploring the deep-rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges dam project that the Chinese government are trying to disguise or supress, brought together by Dai Qing, an investigative journalist, at the risk of her own freedom.




Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China


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This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era in comparison with 1976-81 films representing the Cultural Revolution, it demonstrates that the latter already breaks away from Socialism.




The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982


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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.




China


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John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.




China And The Challenge Of The Future


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This book highlights information obtained from formal interviews and informal conversations with knowledgeable Chinese in 1985-1987. It reveals the growing participation in politics of social groups and related changes underway in the patterns of contemporary Chinese political thought and culture.




China Exchange News


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A review of education, science, and academic relations with the PRC.




Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China


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Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.




Problems of Communism


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Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy


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This work applies the micro-macro linkage approach to Chinese foreign policy. It analyzes the effect of the international environment and domestic constraints, exploring the key trends of modernization, nationalism, and regionalism, reviewing literature an.