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Author: Judith Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521781503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.
Author: Mao Tse-tung
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486119572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Author: Judith Shapiro
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0745698670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In the second edition of this acclaimed, trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China's struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five core analytical concepts to explore the complexities of this struggle - the implications of globalization, the challenges of governance; contested national identity, the evolution of civil society, and problems of environmental justice and displacement of environmental harm - Shapiro poses a number of pressing questions: Can the Chinese people equitably achieve the higher living standards enjoyed in the developed world? Are China's environmental problems so severe that they may shake the government's stability, legitimacy and control? To what extent are China's environmental problems due to world-wide patterns of consumption? Does China's rise bode ill for the displacement of environmental harm to other parts of the world? And in a world of increasing limits on resources, how can we build a system in which people enjoy equal access to resources without taking them from successive generations, from the vulnerable, or from other species? China and the planet are at a pivotal moment; transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But - as Shapiro persuasively argues - doing so will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. The window of opportunity will not be open much longer.
Author: Judith Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521781503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of "harmony between heaven and humans" was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that "Man Must Conquer Nature." Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's "war" to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment. Mao's War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. Shapiro's account, told in part through the voices of average Chinese citizens and officials who lived through and participated in some of the destructive campaigns, is both eye-opening and heartbreaking. Judith Shapiro teaches environmental politics at American University in Washington, DC. She is co-author, with Liang Heng, of several well known books on China, including Son of the Revolution (Random House, 1984) and After the Nightmare (Knopf, 1986). She was one of the first Americans to work in China after the normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979.
Author: Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 0674040414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.
Author: Yifei Li
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1509543139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led environmentalism which concentrates decisive political, economic, and epistemic power under centralized leadership. On the face of it, China seems to embody hope for a radical new approach to environmental governance. In this thought-provoking book, Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro probe the concrete mechanisms of China’s coercive environmentalism to show how ‘going green’ helps the state to further other agendas such as citizen surveillance and geopolitical influence. Through top-down initiatives, regulations, and campaigns to mitigate pollution and environmental degradation, the Chinese authorities also promote control over the behavior of individuals and enterprises, pacification of borderlands, and expansion of Chinese power and influence along the Belt and Road and even into the global commons. Given the limited time that remains to mitigate climate change and protect millions of species from extinction, we need to consider whether a green authoritarianism can show us the way. This book explores both its promises and risks.
Author: Covell F. Meyskens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1108489559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of how economic development and everyday life intersected with the temperature of Cold War geopolitics in Mao's China.
Author: Judith Shapiro
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2012-06-11
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0745660916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet.
Author: Judith Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521786805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.
Author: Guobin Yang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0231520484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.
