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Author |
: Tyrene White |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501726583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501726587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis China's Longest Campaign by : Tyrene White
In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade-long effort to subject reproduction to state planning. Tyrene White here analyzes this great social engineering experiment, drawing on more than twenty years of research, including fieldwork and interviews with a wide range of family-planning officials and rural cadres.White explores the origins of China's "birth-planning" approach to population control, the implementation of the campaign in rural China, strategies of resistance employed by villagers, and policy consequences (among them infanticide, infant abandonment, and sex-ratio imbalances). She also provides the first extensive political analysis of China's massive 1983 sterilization drive. The birth-planning project was the last and longest of the great mobilization campaigns, surviving long after the Deng regime had officially abandoned mass campaigns as instruments of political control.Arguing that the campaign had become an indispensable institution of rural governance, White shows how the one-child campaign mimicked the organizational style and rhythms both of political campaigns and economic production campaigns. Against the backdrop of unfolding rural reforms, only the campaign method could override obstacles to rural enforcement. As reform gradually eroded and transformed patterns of power and authority, however, even campaigns grew increasingly ineffective, paving the way for long-overdue reform of the birth-planning program.
Author |
: Rush Doshi |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2021-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197527870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197527876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long Game by : Rush Doshi
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Taking readers behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential "strategies of displacement." Beginning in the 1980s, China focused for two decades on "hiding capabilities and biding time." After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it became more assertive regionally, following a policy of "actively accomplishing something." Finally, in the aftermath populist elections of 2016, China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining US hegemony, adopting the phrase "great changes unseen in century." After charting how China's long game has evolved, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically, his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing's own strategic playbook to undermine China's ambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan.
Author |
: Abrahm Lustgarten |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2009-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805090185 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805090185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis China's Great Train by : Abrahm Lustgarten
Lustgarten's book is a timely and provocative account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the nation's obsession to transform its land and its people.
Author |
: Benjamin Lai |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2019-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472834027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147283402X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long March 1934–35 by : Benjamin Lai
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure starvation, harsh climates, and challenging terrain whilst under constant aerial bombardment and threatened by daily skirmishes. The Long March survivors had to cross 24 rivers and 18 mountain ranges, through freezing snow and disease-ridden wilderness to reach their safe-haven of Yan'an. In military terms, the Long March was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and it came as a terrible cost – after one year, 6,000 miles and countless battles, fewer than 4,000 of the original marchers were left. Illustrated with stunning full-colour artwork, this enthralling book tells the full story this epic display of resilience, and shows how, from the desert plateau of Yan'an, these survivors would grow the army that conquered China 14 years on, changing history forever.
Author |
: Rickie Solinger |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2015-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199395446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199395446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reproductive States by : Rickie Solinger
When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights. China's infamous "one child" policy is a well-known example of reproductive politics, but history is filled with other examples of governmental population control to advance its interests. Reproductive States is the first volume of a collection of case studies that explores when and how some of the most populous countries in the world invented and implemented state population policies in the 20th century. The authors, scholars specializing in reproductive politics, survey population policies from key countries on five continents to provide a global perspective. Regardless of the type of government or its cultural history, many of these countries have developed similar policies to control their populations and attempt to combat social problems such as poverty and hunger. However, the common denominator is that states have used women's bodies as a political resource. Far from being just an overseas problem, this volume illustrates how other countries have developed their strategies in response to goals and tactics driven by the United Nations and the United States. Due to fears of a post-World War II "population bomb" and uncertainty of how to deal with the world's poor after the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union led the charge among nations to devise strategies to control their populations, but in different ways. The U.S. and some European countries pressed the poor and ethnic minorities to limit reproduction. China's "one child" policy targeted all ranks of society, while Soviet women (who already had few rights) were under surveillance through state-planned services such as medical care and commodity distribution to detect pregnancy. Interweaving biopolitics, gender studies, statecraft, and world systems, Reproductive States offer reflections on the outcome of such policies and their legacies in our day.
Author |
: Andrew Scobell |
Publisher |
: Rand Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781977404206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1977404200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis China’s Grand Strategy by : Andrew Scobell
To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.
Author |
: Zheng Wang |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231148900 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231148909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Forget National Humiliation by : Zheng Wang
Wang follows the Chinese Communist Party's ideological re-education of the public through the exploitation of China's humiliating modern history, tracking the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, re-establish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era.
Author |
: Jung Chang |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 857 |
Release |
: 2011-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307807137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307807134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mao by : Jung Chang
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned, and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao’s rule — in peacetime.
Author |
: Dan Blumenthal |
Publisher |
: AEI Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2020-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780844750323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0844750328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Nightmare by : Dan Blumenthal
This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy. The China Nightmare makes an extraordinarily compelling case that China's future could be dark and the free world must prepare accordingly.
Author |
: Yuen Yuen Ang |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2020-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108802383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108802389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis China's Gilded Age by : Yuen Yuen Ang
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and capitalism, not only in China but around the world.