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…
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…
Although dozens of books have been published about China's rise, most authors treat it as an economic, political or military bloc rather than seeing it as a powerhouse of ideas that could influence our world. They have little to say about China's intellectual debates, or the ideological competition they might pose to the European and American world-views.
The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a comm…
Contents: 1. National conditions 2. Politics 3. Economy 4. Science and technology, education, culture and art, public health and sports etc.
This book is actually a sequel to, and the eleventh chapter of, An Outline History of China edited by Prof. Bai Shouyi and published by the Foreign Languages Press in English in 1982. The May 4th Movement of 1919 is regarded as the beginning of the new-democratic revolution in China. From that time until the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the four decades saw …
The Revolution of 1911 is the most important event in early 20th century China. At that time the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled over China for 260 years, was overthrown, ending two thousand years of feudal monarchic dictatorship. With the subsequent establishment of the Republic of China, democracy and the republican form of government was able to strike a deep root in the hearts of the Chinese …
Contents: 1. The only coastal province in the western region 2. The region with the biggest population of minority nationalities 3. Beautiful and abundant southern border etc.
The defining moment in the development of a modern China is shown to be 4 May 1919 at the Tian'anmen gate in Beijing, where a new generation rejected Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture, and protested violently against the Paris Peace Conference. Chinese cities at that time still bore the imprints of their ancient past, with narrow lanes and sacred temples, but they were starting to ch…