Covering more than 20 years of social life under collectivization, village cadre Zhou’s work journals contain a gold mine of information waiting to be explored and uncovered.
"This book presents a complete set of the daily work journals by a village cadre, Mr. Zhou Shengkang (1926-2012), from 1961 to 1982.
In this vivid new social history of the Tiananmen protests, Beijing massacre, and nationwide crackdown of 1989, Jeremy Brown explores the key turning points of the crisis in China and shows how the massacre and its aftermath were far from ...
With particular focus on the link between spatial forms and social organization, this book traces the origins and development of this critical institution up to the present day. "Bray makes his case quite admirably.
When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification.
Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions.
This text lays the foundation for this categorical quantum mechanics, with an emphasis on the graphical calculus which makes computation intuitive.
the withdrawal of Soviet troops, inner-party elections, the removal of all Stalinists in the leadership, and the formation of a new government under Nagy. They declared solidarity with the Polish “movement for national independence” and ...
Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those ...
The book is based on evidence gathered from archives and interviews with villagers and rural officials.
The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chines from the mid-1950s to he mid-1960s, this volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward -- Mao's utopian attempt to ...