Engendering the Chinese Revolution

Engendering the Chinese Revolution
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780520917200
ISBN-13 : 0520917200
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Engendering the Chinese Revolution by : Christina Kelley Gilmartin

Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were committed to women's emancipation and the radical political efforts that were made to overcome women's subordination and to transform gender relations. Women activists whose experiences and achievements have been previously ignored are brought to life in this study, which illustrates how the Party functioned not only as a political organization but as a subculture for women as well. We learn about the intersection of the personal and political lives of male communists and how this affected their beliefs about women's emancipation. Gilmartin depicts with thorough and incisive scholarship how the Party formulated an ideological challenge to traditional gender relations while it also preserved aspects of those relationships in its organization.

The May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement
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Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822003389277
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The May Fourth Movement by : Cezong Zhou

There are few major events in modern Chinese history so controversial, so much discussed, yet so inadequately treated as the May Fourth Movement. For some Chinese it marks a national renaissance or liberation, for others a national catastrophe. Among those who discuss or celebrate it most, views vary greatly. Every May for the last forty years, numerous articles have analyzed and commented on the movement. Several books devoted entirely to the subject and hundreds touching on it have been published in Chinese. The literature on the subject is massive, yet most of it offers more polemic than factual accounts. Most Westerners possess but fragmentary and inaccurate information on the subject. For these reasons, preparation of this volume recounting the events of the movement and examining in detail its currents and effects has seemed to me worthwhile.

The Chinese Enlightenment

The Chinese Enlightenment
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 0520050274
ISBN-13 : 9780520050273
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Chinese Enlightenment by : Vera Schwarcz

It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.

China's Lonely Revolution

China's Lonely Revolution
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781438465319
ISBN-13 : 1438465319
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis China's Lonely Revolution by : Jeremy A. Murray

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956. Jeremy A. Murray’s study of local Communist revolutionaries in Hainan between 1926 and 1956 provides a window into the diversity and complexity of the Chinese revolution. Long at the margins of the Chinese state, Hainan was once known by mainlanders only for its malarial climate and fierce indigenous people. In spite of efforts by the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese to exterminate Hainan’s Communists, the movement survived because of an alliance with the indigenous Li. For years it persevered, though in complete isolation from Communist headquarters on the mainland. Using Chinese-language sources, archival materials, and interviews, Murray draws a vivid picture of this movement from the Hainanese perspective, and broadens our understanding of how patriotism, Party loyalty, and Chinese identity have been experienced and interpreted in modern China.

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 0804708274
ISBN-13 : 9780804708272
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by : Lucien Bianco

Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution

A Bitter Revolution

A Bitter Revolution
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 019280605X
ISBN-13 : 9780192806055
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis A Bitter Revolution by : Rana Mitter

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.

The Nanyang Revolution

The Nanyang Revolution
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781108471657
ISBN-13 : 110847165X
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nanyang Revolution by : Anna Belogurova

A ground-breaking analysis of how the Malayan Communist Party helped forge a Malayan national identity, while promoting Chinese nationalism.

Mao's Last Revolution

Mao's Last Revolution
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 742
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ISBN-10 : 9780674040410
ISBN-13 : 0674040414
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Mao's Last Revolution by : Roderick MACFARQUHAR

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

The Laws and Economics of Confucianism

The Laws and Economics of Confucianism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781107141117
ISBN-13 : 1107141117
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Laws and Economics of Confucianism by : Taisu Zhang

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China's lagging development in preindustrial times.

The Commanding Heights

The Commanding Heights
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0684829754
ISBN-13 : 9780684829753
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Commanding Heights by : Daniel Yergin