Author : Elizabeth Economy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190866071
In The Third Revolution, Elizabeth Economy, one of America's leading China scholars, provides an authoritative overview of contemporary China that makes sense of all of the seeming inconsistencies and ambiguities in its policies and actions.
Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0684856352
Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.
Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439106495
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Author : Lorraine Justice
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262017423
The evolution of Chinese design and the major shift in the culture of creativity in a post-Mao China. China is on the verge of a design revolution. A "third generation" of the People's Republic of China that came of age during China's "opening up" period of the 1980s now strives for fame, fortune, and self expression. This generation, workers in their thirties and forties, has more freedom to create--and to consume--than their parents or grandparents. In China's Design Revolution, Lorraine Justice maps the evolution of Chinese design and innovation. Justice explains that just as this "third generation" (post-Revolution, post-Cultural Revolution) reaches for self-expression, China's government is making massive investments in design and innovation, supporting design and creative activities (including design education programs, innovation parks, and privatized companies) at the local and national levels. The goal is to stimulate economic growth--and to establish China as a global creative power. Influenced by Mao and Confucius, communism and capitalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, China's third generation will drive the culture of design and innovation in China--and maybe the rest of the world. Justice describes and documents examples of Chinese design and innovation that range from ancient ceramics to communist propaganda posters. She then explores current award-winning projects in media, fashion, graphic, interior, and product design; and examines the lifestyle and purchasing trends of the "fourth generation," now in their teens and twenties. China's Design Revolution offers an essential guide to the inextricably entwined stories of design, culture, and politics in China.
Author : R. Keith Schoppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 135121988X
Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history, which tend to be either encyclopedic or too pedantic, Revolution and Its Past is comprehensive but concise, focused on the most recent scholarship, and written in a style that engages students from beginning to end. The Third Edition uses the theme of identities--of the nation itself and of the Chinese people--to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the early twenty-first century. In so doing, it explores the range of identities that China has chosen over time and those that outsiders have attributed to China and its people, showing how, as China rapidly modernizes, the issue of Chinese identity in the modern world looms large.
Author : Christopher R. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1135969728
This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945–1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of how the CCP waged and ultimately won the war, the transformation its armed forces and how the Communist leadership interacted with each other. Whereas most explanations of the CCP’s eventual victory focus on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45, when the revolution was supposedly won as a result of the communists’ invention of "peasant nationalism", this book shows that the outcome of the revolution was not a foregone conclusion in 1945. It explains how the eventual victory of the communists resulted from important strategic decisions taken on both sides, in particular the remarkable transformation of the communist army from an insurgent / guerrilla force into a conventional army. The book also explores how the hierarchy of The People’s Republic of China developed during the war. It shows how Mao’s power was based as much on his military acumen as his political thought, above all his role in formulating and implementing a successful military strategy in the war of 1945–49. It also describes how other important figures, such as Lin Biao, Deng Xiaoping, Nie Rongzhen, Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi, made their reputations during the conflict; and reveals the inner workings of the first political-military elite of the PRC. Overall, this book is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand the origins and early history of The People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.
Author : Melissa Chiu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2008
Category : 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.
Author : Ian G. Cook
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780700713073
Presents an in-depth picture of China today in social, economic and political terms, examining the record of 50 years of Communist rule, its successes and failures.
Author : Ross Garnaut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521554091
The first revolution in the Chinese countryside was the land reform implemented in the 'liberated areas' and extended throughout China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This was important in the consolidation of the Communist Party's political power. The second revolution was the decollectivization of agriculture and the shift to the household responsibility system as a basis for agricultural production. The phenomenal increase in Chinese agricultural output from 1978 to 1984 resulted partly from the new system of production and with a resulting explosion of farm incomes. The second revolution in the Chinese countryside from the late 1970s set the scene for the third revolution: the freeing of markets for farm products and the linking of domestic markets and international markets. The third revolution is still in progress and this book explores its beginnings. Initially, the book covers the issues of poverty in China and feeding the population. The second section describes the agricultural markets in China and the price reform of agricultural products. The next two parts discuss international and regional issues of China's agricultural economy. Finally there are contributions on what institutional changes have been associated with the third agricultural revolution. The contributions are from a team of experts on the Chinese economy from inside and outside China led by Professor Garnaut.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2022-03-31T22:59:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1669373673
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Chinese Politburo Standing Committee, the seven men who lead the country, is chosen almost entirely behind closed doors. The runup to this particular selection process was particularly fraught, as it was the first time in twoandahalf decades that the general secretary of the CCP was not handselected by Deng Xiaoping. #2 The new members of the Politburo were largely unknown quantities. Xi Jinping, who had served as general secretary of the Communist Party for three decades, was largely an unknown quantity. #3 Xi Jinping, the new general secretary, spoke at a press conference shortly after the new leaders made their appearance at the Great Hall of the People. He called for the great revival of the Chinese nation. #4 The Chinese Dream is the idea that China should double its percapita GDP by 2020, have a military capable of fighting and winning wars, and meet the social welfare needs of its citizens.
