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  • Using the Past to Serve the Present

    Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China

    by Jonathan Unger ...
    An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is also assessed, as governmental control of the media has decreased. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang

    From Mao to Jiang

    by Jonathan Unger ...
    This book describes and analyzes how politics among the Chinese leadership has operated and evolved from the period of Mao's court up to the present day. Part I explores politics under Mao and Deng. For this section the five leading western analysts of elite Chinese politics -- Lowell Dittmer, Lucian Pye, Frederick Teiwes, Andrew Nathan, and Tsou Tang -- have contributed major papers that measure ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces

    Contested Spaces

    by Jonathan Unger ...
    What role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? Under Mao few associations were permitted to exist, while today over 200,000 associations are officially recognized. Are they important foundations of civil society, or vehicles for state corporatism and control? In this book leading China specialists examine an interesting range of associations, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Chinese Nationalism

    by Jonathan Unger ...
    Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Transformation of Rural China

    by Jonathan Unger ...
    During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day. A leading specialist on rural China, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution, and then ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Celeste, Daughter of the Earth and Other Early Poems

    by Enrique Lihn ...
    Translated by Jonathan Cohen, David Unger ...
    A collection of lyrical, philosophical early poems by “one of Chile’s foremost poets” (Publishers Weekly)Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, and Pablo Neruda. Lihn’s first two poetry books represented here—Nada se escurre (Nothing Slips Away), 1949, and Poemas de este tiempo y de otro (Poems of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • A Fire Burns in Kotsk

    A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Menashe Unger ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns ... Read more

    $34.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System

    The Li Yizhe Debates

    Edited by Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen, Jonathan Unger ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In 1974, a small group of young intellectuals, the Li Yizhe group, circulated their dissident manifesto, ‘On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System,’ a probing critique of the leftist authoritarianism of Mao Zedong. This title examines the writings of these dissidents as a means to better understand the views of non-Party Marxists in their struggle to defy the government and construct their own ... Read more

    Was $79.69 CAD Now $71.44 CAD

  • China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

    In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

    by Barrett L. McCormick, Jonathan Unger ...
    Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated with the East Asian miracle? does China's Leninist political system and the heritage of a state-run-heavy-industrial sector present too great a burden for successful transformation? and what is the likelihood that China's ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Organizing Rural China — Rural China Organizing

    by Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel, Ma Hua, Xu Yong, Liu Yiqiang, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Marina Svensson, Pang Cuiming, Yang Minghong, Jørgen Delman, Vivienne Shue, Jonathan Unger, Mette Halskov Hansen ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the economic and social ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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  • China's Leaders

    From Mao to Now

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power ... Read more

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  • Never Forget National Humiliation

    Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

    by Zheng Wang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but ... Read more

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