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Author: George Black
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Published: 1993-05-03
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn China, the "Black Hands" are those people considered the principal threats to China's totalitarian regime. In the most vivid and revealing book yet on the Chinese democracy movement, the personal stories of three of the main leaders of the movement cast a glaring light on the nature of the Communist regime and the consequences of open protet against it.
Author: George Black
Publisher:
Published: 1993-05-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn China, the "Black Hands" are those people considered the principal threats to China's totalitarian regime. In the most vivid and revealing book yet on the Chinese democracy movement, the personal stories of three of the main leaders of the movement cast a glaring light on the nature of the Communist regime and the consequences of open protet against it.
Author: Yang Su
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1009325167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree decades after 1989, historical materials are now available for understanding the Tiananmen protests in a new light. In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Yang Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization. Beneath the political drama, Deadly Decision in Beijing explores the authoritarian regime's perpetual crisis of leadership transition and its impact on popular movements.
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994-11-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780253113481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice "... a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals.
Author: Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0199778205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why? In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors. Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil resistance and nonviolent revolt.
Author: Colin Mackerras
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780732941864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis analysis of the AustraliaQChina relationship between 1985Q95 takes a multi-disciplinary approach. Discusses economic and political issues and educational, scientific and sporting interactions. Addresses issues such as human rights, immigration and external policy in relation to Taiwan and Hong Kong. The editor is foundation professor in China studies at Griffith University and has written extensively on Chinese affairs.
Author: Richard T. Wang
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780810833500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA combination of scholarly, commercial, and popular interests has generated a large quantity of literature on every aspect of Chinese life during the past two decades. This bibliography reflects these combined interests; it is broken up into sections by subject headings, and cross-references refer the researcher to related topics.
Author: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-05-31
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0199974993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise. Focusing his answers through the historical legacies--Western and Japanese imperialism, the Mao era, and the massacre near Tiananmen Square--that largely define China's present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom introduces readers to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fall-out of rapid Chinese industrialization. He also explains unique aspects of Chinese culture such as the one-child policy, and provides insight into how Chinese view Americans. Wasserstrom reveals that China today shares many traits with other industrialized nations during their periods of development, in particular the United States during its rapid industrialization in the 19th century. He provides guidance on the ways we can expect China to act in the future vis-à-vis the United States, Russia, India, and its East Asian neighbors. The second edition has also been updated to take into account changes China has seen in just the past two years, from the global economic shifts to the recent removal of Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai from power. Concise and insightful, China in the 21st Century provides an excellent introduction to this significant global power.
Author: Lawrence R. Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-08-03
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1442264691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) assumed power in October 1949 China was one of the poorest nations in the world and so weak it had been conquered in the late 1930s and early 1940s by its neighbor Japan, a country one-10th its size. More than five decades later, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an emerging economic, political, and major military power with the world’s fastest growing economy and largest population (1.35 billion in 2015). A member of the United Nations Security Council since the early 1970s and a nuclear power, China wields enormous influence in the world community while at home what was once a nation of largely poverty-stricken peasants and urban areas with little-to-no industry has been transformed into an increasingly urbanized society with a growing middle class and an industrial and service sector that leads the world in such industries as steel and textiles while becoming a major player in computers and telecommunications. All the while the country has remained under the tight political control of a one-party system dominated by the Chinese Communist Party that despite periods of intense political conflict and turmoil governs China with a membership in 2014 of 88 million people—the largest single organization on earth. This third edition of Historical Dictionary ofthe People's Republic of China contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about China.
Author: Stewart MacPherson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781782542889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic and Social Development in South China brings together research by a pioneering team of academic researchers and includes statistical data on the Pearl River Delta as well as analysis of the metropolitan development in Guangzhou municipal city, civil service reform and social policy in Shenzhen, Guangzhou's municipal leadership and the basic level elections in the region since 1979. Other issues discussed include foreign outward direct investment from Guangdong, the creation of effective environmental law, foreign investment in Guangdong and the emergence of private education in the Pearl River Delta. Southern China's creative approaches to the difficulties and problems encountered since reforms began in the 1970s is rigorously analysed and explored by scholars with exceptional access to local sources and data. Economic and Social Development in South China shows how the use - encouraged by the authorities - of competing models of economic development will influence and shape the future of the country as a whole.
