China Briefing, 1984

China Briefing, 1984

Author: Steven M. Goldstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0429717946

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China Briefing, 1984 aims to increase American understanding of Chinese life, culture, and society; to counter stereotypical thinking about China; and to provide a non-partisan source of information for those seeking to understand or explain China to the American public.


China Briefing, 1985

China Briefing, 1985

Author: John S. Major

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0429718136

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China Briefing, 1985 approaches the events of the previous year providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1984. 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


China Briefing, 1988

China Briefing, 1988

Author: Anthony J. Kane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0429710097

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China Briefing, 1988 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 1987. Senior China specialists examine the student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger context of the 40-year history of the People's Republic o


China Briefing, 1987

China Briefing, 1987

Author: John S. Major

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0429718292

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The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, China experienced the consolidation of rural economic reform, continued progress in urban reform, a widening of the "open door" to the west, and, perhaps most important, the seemingly irreversible impact on Chinese society and culture of Deng Xiaoping's new policies. The political consequences of reform continued to create problems, as was seen at year's end in a dramatic series of student demonstrations and the disciplining of several high party officials and intellectuals. This annual volume reviews the events and trends of the year in foreign relations, domestic politics, the economy, foreign investment and technology transfer, defense, and culture. A separate chapter provides an overview of events in Taiwan. Complementing these essays by distinguished China scholars is a chronology of significant events and a selection of important documents published during 1986. The book is ideal for course use and is essential reading for travelers bound for China, business executives, journalists, and China watchers in general.


China Briefing, 1990

China Briefing, 1990

Author: Anthony Kane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0429722389

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"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


China Briefing

China Briefing

Author: William A. Joseph

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1996-12-31

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781563248887

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This newest China Briefing provides a retrospective analysis of important events in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and a prospective look at some of the issues that will shape these areas as they each move toward decisive turning points in their distinct yet intertwined histories. The volume includes chapters on politics, economics, U.S.-China relations, Taiwan, Hong Kong, gender, and popular culture and concludes with a detailed chronology covering the period from mid-1994 through mid-1996.


China Briefing

China Briefing

Author: Jay D White

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1315291878

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The chapters in this latest edition of China Briefing reflect broadly on China's transformation in the twentieth century. The authors not only examine developments in China over the 1997-1999 period, but also place these events in a wider historical perspective by addressing the following questions: Where has China traveled over the course of the century? To what extent has it been transformed, and how? What are the enduring themes or points of continuity, even during a century of great change and transformation? And what are China's prospects for the future?


China's Intellectuals and the State

China's Intellectuals and the State

Author: Merle Goldman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1684171091

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"Today’s intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of criticizing abuses of political power. Marxist intellectuals judge the state’s practices on the basis of Communist ideals. Others prefer the May Fourth spirit, dedicated to the principles of free scholarly and artistic expression. The Chinese government, for its part, has undulated in its treatment of intellectuals, applying restraints when free expression threatened to get “out of control,” relaxing controls when state policies required the cooperation, good will, and expertise of intellectuals. In this stimulating work, twelve China scholars examine that troubled and changing relationship. They focus primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China’s renewed quest for modernization have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making. Specialists examine the situation with respect to economists, lawyers, scientists and technocrats, writers, and humanist scholars in the climate of Deng Xiaoping’s policies, and speculate about future developments. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone interested in the changing scene in contemporary China and in its relations with the outside world."


Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China

Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China

Author: Elena Meyer-Clement

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317423321

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Economic liberalisation processes and the rapid development of the private sector are widely visible signs of over thirty years of reform policies in the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has managed to preserve the basic political institutions of the Leninist Party-state, including its own unrestrained position of political power. Against this background, this book investigates the interrelationship between processes of marketisation and commercialisation, and the stability of the CCP regime. The aim of the book is to complement existing literature on adaptive governance in China and on the reasons for the CCP regime’s relative stability, while providing new information about the relationship between the Chinese party-state and private entrepreneurs. Taking case studies from the film and music industries, the book gives a detailed account of the political and economic history of these industries in China, with special attention given to the role played by private production companies as intermediaries between artistic creation, political and ideological constraints, and the market. A historical institutionalist approach is employed to trace the effect of Chinese policies on popular culture and the institutions of administrative, economic, political and ideological control over the film and music industries back to the 1950s, revealing the mechanisms and prospects of CCP hegemony in the cultural sector. Examining the effects of the marketisation and commercialisation processes on the communist regime and vice versa, this book also offers a fresh perspective on the origins of today’s Chinese popular cultural mainstream. It will therefore be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, Chinese culture and media and Chinese government-business relations.


American Studies of Contemporary China

American Studies of Contemporary China

Author: David L. Shambaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1315484552

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Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.