Author: Dehuai Peng
Publisher: China Books & Periodicals
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"A Cultural Revolution 'confession' by Marshal Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) covering his career from service in China's warlord armies to command of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea"--Cover.
Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal
Author: Dehuai Peng
Publisher: China Books & Periodicals
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"A Cultural Revolution 'confession' by Marshal Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) covering his career from service in China's warlord armies to command of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea"--Cover.
Publisher: China Books & Periodicals
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"A Cultural Revolution 'confession' by Marshal Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) covering his career from service in China's warlord armies to command of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea"--Cover.
Life and Death in Shanghai
Author: Cheng Nien
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802145167
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802145167
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Chinese Foreign Policy
Author: Suisheng Zhao
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131747483X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131747483X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.
A Field-marshal's Memoirs
Author: Alfred Graf von Waldersee
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
No Foreign Bones in China
Author: Peter Stursberg
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
No Foreign Bones in China tells a story of China through the eyes of a British colonial family. Through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, two world wars, and the rise of Mao, the Shaws were witness to the turbulent birth of modern China. Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw, a merchant seaman, arrived in China in the 1830s. After a long and colourful career, he settled in the port of Foochow, married a Japanese woman, and started a family. The Shaw children grew up in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade, and expected to spend their lives in this beautiful place. But a few years later, they were forced to leave. In a dramatic display of pro-Chinese nationalism, foreigners were expelled from the country—even to the bones lying in their graves. Told with emotion and insight, No Foreign Bones in China explores cultural history in lavish detail. In re-creating the story of his family, Peter Stursberg reveals history as it was lived and made.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
No Foreign Bones in China tells a story of China through the eyes of a British colonial family. Through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, two world wars, and the rise of Mao, the Shaws were witness to the turbulent birth of modern China. Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw, a merchant seaman, arrived in China in the 1830s. After a long and colourful career, he settled in the port of Foochow, married a Japanese woman, and started a family. The Shaw children grew up in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade, and expected to spend their lives in this beautiful place. But a few years later, they were forced to leave. In a dramatic display of pro-Chinese nationalism, foreigners were expelled from the country—even to the bones lying in their graves. Told with emotion and insight, No Foreign Bones in China explores cultural history in lavish detail. In re-creating the story of his family, Peter Stursberg reveals history as it was lived and made.
Chairman Mao Would Not be Amused
Author: Howard Goldblatt
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Twenty stories by Chinese writers as they break free of the grip of uniformity which held them for over four decades. The stories include Can Xue's The Summons, on the last days of a murderer, Su Tong's The Brothers Shu, on male rivalry for a woman, and A String of Choices, which is a satirical look at Chinese health care by Wang Meng, a deposed minister of culture.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Twenty stories by Chinese writers as they break free of the grip of uniformity which held them for over four decades. The stories include Can Xue's The Summons, on the last days of a murderer, Su Tong's The Brothers Shu, on male rivalry for a woman, and A String of Choices, which is a satirical look at Chinese health care by Wang Meng, a deposed minister of culture.
China's Use of Military Force
Author: Andrew Scobell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.
The Cultural Revolution
Author: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
ISBN: 1632864231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
ISBN: 1632864231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
Author: Lucien Bianco
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804708272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804708272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution
Mao
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451654480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
"Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451654480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
"Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.