On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals how the most important decisions wer…
Told by his youngest daughter, the story of Deng Xiaoping is interwoven with modern Chinese history, tracing his sixty-year career from birth in a village in Sichuan province to a position of key leadership in the Communist party.
As tensions mount in East Asia, much has been written recently about China and its place in the world. China has emerged from its past difficulties to become a superpower in its own right, but many in the West harbour misconceptions about it. The news media in the West tend to report on the negative aspects of Chinese life, ignoring the great strides China has taken in achieving its goals. C…
The contents of this book: 1. National Conditions 2. Politics 3. Economy 4. Education, Science and Technology, Culture, and Art, Public Health and Sports, etc.
An intellectual history of China by He Zhaowu is a brief but comprehensive survey of the main trends of thought that emerged and flourished in the course of China's long history, from the pre-QIN period (20th to 3rd century B.C.) to modern times. Elucidated in the book are not only Chinese philosophical, political and economic ideas, but also thoughts on natural science, historiography and lit…
The detailed articles in this A-Z companion provide a comprehensive narrative history of China. Covering events from the last days of Imperial China to the aftermath of the Mao era, the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the latest economic andpolitical reforms, Modern China is a superb guide to a key global power. China will have a huge impact on all our lives in the 21st century. Whether …
This book offers a general introduction to China's process of the establishment of its legal system, legislative system and major branches of the law, etc. displaying the principal aspects of China's socialist legal system. The contents of this book cover China's constitutional law, administrative law, civil, commercial and economic law, criminal law, procedural law, State compensation law, jud…
China Briefing, 1990 approaches the events of the previous year differently from past volumes in the series, providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1989. Senior China specialists examine the student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger context of the 40-year history of the People's Republic of China and also reflect on future directions f…
China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology that has never been matched by a developi…
Covering an 18-month span, this latest edition of China Briefing assesses the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen tragedy and its continuing impact on China's domestic and foreign policies. The book opens with an exploration of the legitimacy crisis currently engulfing the Chinese Communist state. A review of the Chinese economy concludes that although it is healthier in 1991 than in 1990, the post…