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The politics of China
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Roderick MacFarquhar |
"Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and p… |
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The tragedy of liberation
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Frank Dikötter |
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"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and jus… |
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Blood Letters
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Lian Xi |
Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chin… |
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Becoming China
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Jeanne-Marie Gescher |
"One of the two most powerful states in the world, China continues to be seen as a mystery even after decades of an open door. How does China work, what does it want, why does it want it, and what do… |
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Deng Xiaoping
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Alexander Pantsov |
Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and stud… |
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The dictator's dilemma
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Bruce J. Dickson |
"Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Cu… |
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Liu Shao-chʻi and the Chinese cultural revolution
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Lowell Dittmer |
"Riding a wave of criticism unprecedented in intensity or scope. China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an epoch-making "struggle between the lines" to determine the direction of n… |
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Mao
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Jung Chang,Jon Halliday |
A biography of of Mao Zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regardi… |
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Mao
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Philip Short |
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of mill… |
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