Red China Blues is Wong's startling and ironic memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng …
An examination of the Chinese emigrant experience, examining the history of Chinese emigration, its effects on emigrants and host nations alike and the culture and achievements of Chinese who have settled abroad. The Chinese diaspora, the most widespread varied and prolonged series of emigrations by one nation, began in the 1500s and continues to this day. This study covers the emigration from …
Buku ini mengupas masalah Hoakiau di Indonesia ketika marak pembatasan etnis Tionghoa. Buku ini dibagi dalam sembilan surat yang dituliskan Pram kepada sahabat penanya di luar negeri yang berisikan pendapat dan pandangannya terhadap masalah hoakiau di Indonesia.
This book expounds on the relations between the region of Tibet and ancient China, making use of historical materials, particularly those since the Yuan Dynasty.
The book introduces many Chinese inventions covering all aspects of life, from the four major inventions a gunpowder, paper, printing, compass -- to numerous other major and smart inventions such as iron and steel smelting, the decimal and binary systems, acupuncture, kite, abacus, parachute, and many more. China as an important source of human civilization had given birth to brilliant ancient …
Buku ini berisi tentang perjalanan panjang sejarah China masa lalu mulai dari pembangunan ekonomi, sistem pertahanan nasional, hubungan luar negeri hingga hubungan dengan aktor-aktor penting.
This book presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of China's socio-political economy. The authors provide insightful explanations of China's economic reforms which started in 1978, have triggered China's integration with the world economy, privatized farming, liberalized markets, intensified healthy competition in industry, and introduced modern macro-economic management. The book comb…
This past spring, the outbreak of SARS grabbed the attention of the world. The schizophrenic, paranoid way the Chinese government handled the outbreak perfectly illustrated the danger of a political system unaccountable to its citizens. In The New Chinese Empire, Ross Terrill assesses this government, and the central question it raises: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybri…
Contents: 1. China's economy in early 21st century: Background and role of reform 2. Major tasks for the pivotal stage of reform of the state sector in the 21st century 3. It is fundamental to establish an income system with employees shareholding as the key in early 21st century 4. Rural economic reform focusing on introducing a long-term and guranteed land-use right in the early 21st cent…
The China Factor in Modern Japanese Thought examines the ideas of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945, a revisionist within the Japanese Kangaku tradition, which focused on incorporating Chinese elements into Japanese culture. Tachibana advocated the study of popular culture as the key to understanding contemporary society. When militarism was on the ascendant, Tachibana was a vocal critic of mil…