China Cultural Revolution

Communist Party is preparing a 2nd Cultural Revolution. Will you stay in China or flee?

Experts are predicting that, since China is poised to become a world superpower, a 2nd Cultural Revolution will occur in China within this decade. The Communist Party are already purging society of unruly elements such as artists and journalists. Next will be teachers, scholars and anyone guilty of betraying the Communist doctrine. There is still time to prepare. The question is: will you stay in China to participate in the second Cultural Revolution (killing your friends, sending your parents to prison, etc.) or will you flee to Taiwan or Japan before it happens?

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China: Dynasties of Power [VHS] $20.00 In the 2nd Century B.C., China faced harrowing attacks from Mongol hordes on its vast, outlying frontiers. In response, China’s leaders would build the most awesome defensive barrier in the history of civilization: the Great Wall of China. Within this 2,600 mile stone cocoon, China nurtured revolutionary achievements from the invention of paper, printing and the compass – to the development of w…

Freedom Fighter: The Story of Lian Shengde This video offers a remarkable first-person account of the life of Lian Shengde, who was born during the Cultural Revolution in China, a time, as he says, “when millions of the people were organized by the Chinese Communist Party and its leader Chairman Mao to fight and kill each other. This son of a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army became a student dissident and leader of the pro-democracy…

China Cry $8.69 THIS DVD can be played in ALL regions. Includes English, Spanish and Portuguese tracks with or without English subtitles. Her story is wrapped up within one of the most incredible marvels in all world history: how the Christian church survived under repressive atheistic communism in China. But it did more than survive. It thrived and multiplied. We can better understand these heroic Chinese C…

Farewell My Concubine $9.99 The panorama of 20th-century Chinese history swirls past two men, celebrated actors with their own decidedly specialized view of things. We first observe their lives as children at the Peking Opera training school, a brutal and demanding arena for future actors. While still in training, the effeminate Douzi is chosen to play the transvestite role and the masculine Shitou is chosen to play the roya…

To Live $14.98 One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China’s influential “fifth generation” of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China’s best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the st…

1970′s Cultural Revolution Tuocha Pu-erh Tea 90g Tea Leaves – Vintage Pu-erh Teas $35.00 This circa early 1970′s Tuocha is a real pleasure to drink. The leaves break apart by hand, which is a true sign of this tea’s age. Wet leaves are dark and rich smelling, typical of a tuocha’s small leaf base. Well stored without any off tastes, this is a winner. About 90 grams. This tea has been well kept and most likely comes from a state run factory in the height of the Cultural Revolution. The…

1973 Cultural Revolution Brick of Tea Leaves – Vintage Pu-erh Teas $849.00 The 1973 Cultural Revolution Brick is also known as the 1973 Thick Brick because it is notably more substantial than its contemporary Pu-erh teas. This rare and desirable brick is from the first year of production of the 7581 bricks. Experts note that its complex taste has never been successfully duplicated. Perfect for drinking with dim sum meals, or for sharing with the best of company. Helps i…

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A Bitter Revolution $29.99 In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China’s twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to the May Fourth Movement. Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this New Culture movement made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China’s recent romance with space-age technology.

A Comrade Lost and Found $25 Hoping to make amends, Wong returns to Beijing to find the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution. As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths not only the fate of the woman she is searching for but a web of fates that mirrors the dramatic journey of contemporary China.

A Dictionary Of Maqiao $15 One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth displaced to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalized portrait of the author’s own experience as a young man.

A Dictionary of Maqiao $6.2 One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth displaced to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalized portrait of the authors own experience as a young man.

A Private Life $27.2 From one of China’s most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman’s emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian’anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young woman growing up during a time of intense social and political upheaval.At the age of twenty-six, Ni Niuniu has come to accept pain and loss. She has suffered the death of her mother and a close friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ho. She has long been estranged from her tyrannical father, while her boyfriend — a brilliant and handsome poet named Yin Nan — was forced to flee the country. She has survived a disturbing affair with a former teacher, a mental breakdown that left her in a mental institution for two years, and a stray bullet that tore through the flesh of her left leg. Now living in complete seclusion, Niuniu shuns a world that seems incapable of accepting her and instead spends her days wandering in vivid, dreamlike reveries where her fractured recollections and wild fantasies merge with her inescapable feelings of melancholy and loneliness. Yet this eccentric young woman — caught between the disappearing traditions of the past and a modernizing Beijing, a flood of memories and an unknowable future, her chosen solitude and her irrepressible longing — discovers strength and independence through writing, which transforms her flight from the hypocrisy of urban life into a journey of self-realization and rebirth. First published in 1996 to widespread critical acclaim, Ran Chen’s controversial debut novel is a lyrical meditation on memory, sexuality, femininity, and the oftenarbitrary distinctions between madness and sanity, alienation and belonging, nature and society. As Chen leads the reader deep into the psyche of Ni Niuniu — into her innermost secrets and sexual desires — the borders separating narrator and protagonist, writer and subject dissolve, exposin

A Short History of China and Southeast Asia $16.95 This informative but concise history of China and Southeast Asia is perfect for travelers, students, teachers, and businesspeople. Portable and attractively designed, it includes color illustrations, maps, and a brief history of the region. Explored are relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia; patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and migration; and how these have varied over time. With a focus on modern history, this is a fascinating account of imperial ambition, internal collapse and revival, cultural and commercial endeavors, and war and revolution. Important insight into the complicated history of the fastest-growing region in the world is offered.

Acting the Right Part $32.84 Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her study both in the context of Chinese literary and cultural history and in the context of comparative drama and theater, cultural studies, and critical issues relevant to national theater worldwide. Following a discussion of the marginality of modern Chinese drama in relation to other genres, periods, and cultures, early chapters focus on the dynamic relationship between theater and revolution. Chosen during the Cultural Revolution as the exclusive artistic vehicle to promote proletariat art, model theater raises important questions about the complex relationships between women, memory, nation/state, revolution, and visual culture. Throughout this study, Chen argues that dramatic norms inform both theatrical performance and everyday political behavior in contemporary China.

Ah, Blue Bird $3.54 Lu Xing”er, one of China”s most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution.

Along the Roaring River $27.95 This is the charming memoir of an internationally renowned operatic bass who began life in Mao’s China and endured the Cultural Revolution to forge a career at the Metropolitan Opera at a time when very few Asian singers appeared on the world’s most prominent stages.

An American Dream $27.91 Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning–character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured by the Chinese. After spending almost three years as a POW, during which he continued to suffer racism at the hands of his fellow Americans, he refused repatriation in 1953, choosing instead the People’s Republic of China, where he hoped to find educational and career opportunities not readily available in his own country. While living in China, Adams earned a university degree, married a Chinese professor of Russian, and worked in Beijing as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press. During the Vietnam War he made a controversial anti-war broadcast over Radio Hanoi, urging black troops not to fight for someone else’s political and economic freedoms until they enjoyed these same rights at home. In 1966, having come under suspicion during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he returned with his wife and two children to the United States, where he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to face charges of disrupting the morale of American fighting forces in Vietnam and inciting revolution in the United States. After these charges weredropped, he and his family struggled to survive economically. Eventually, through sheer perseverance, they were able to fulfill at least part of the American Dream. By the time he died, the family owned and operated eight successful Chinese restaurants in his native Memphis.

An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China $175.57 Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning–character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured by the Chinese. After spending almost three years as a POW, during which he continued to suffer racism at the hands of his fellow Americans, he refused repatriation in 1953, choosing instead the People’s Republic of China, where he hoped to find educational and career opportunities not readily available in his own country. While living in China, Adams earned a university degree, married a Chinese professor of Russian, and worked in Beijing as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press. During the Vietnam War he made a controversial anti-war broadcast over Radio Hanoi, urging black troops not to fight for someone else’s political and economic freedoms until they enjoyed these same rights at home. In 1966, having come under suspicion during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he returned with his wife and two children to the United States, where he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to face charges of disrupting the morale of American fighting forces in Vietnam and inciting revolution in the United States. After these charges weredropped, he and his family struggled to survive economically. Eventually, through sheer perseverance, they were able to fulfill at least part of the American Dream. By the time he died, the family owned and operated eight successful Chinese restaurants in his native Memphis.

An Unfinished Republic $65 In this cogent and insightful reading of China”s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life–one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China”s social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a stance familiar to republics worldwide. This shift in political posture was accompanied by considerable trepidation as well as excitement. Profiling three prominent political actors of the time–suffragist Tang Qunying, diplomat Lu Zhengxiang, and revolutionary Sun Yatsen–Strand demonstrates how a sea change in political performance left leaders dependent on popular support and citizens enmeshed in a political process productive of both authority and dissent.

Ancestral Leaves $24.95 Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family– Ye means leaf in Chinese–reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.

Ancestral Leaves $60 Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family– Ye means leaf in Chinese–reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.

Ancient China $6.65 Ancient China chronicles 3500 years of China”s recorded civilization, beginning with the founding of the Shang dynasty around 1500 B.C., and continuing through the Great Cultural Revolution now in progress. It is a rich, exciting story, important to our understanding of today”s crisis between East and West, yet surprisingly little is known. Fitzgerald traces the great sweep of Chinese civilization through all its millenniums. He writes of the great events and powerful men who have shaped China”s destiny including the early efforts to unite China, the rise and fall of dynasties and the invasions of barbarians, the encroachment of the West and the Civil War in our own century, Shih Huang Ti and Genghis Khan, Sun Yat-sen, and Mao Tse-tung.

Apolgies Forthcoming $50.13 Fiction. Asian Studies. This sometimes disturbing, always illuminating collection of stories centers around China”s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today, with both sides still hold out, and with apologies forthcoming. Xujun Eberlein lived in China during that tumultuous period and now makes her home in America. Xujun Eberlein is a fresh voice in American fiction, a Chinese writer with a remarkably shrewd, interesting tongue….There is a richness in her vision that sets it apart — Jay Parini. The stories have a subtly addictive momentum — Sven Birkerts.

Apologies Forthcoming $8.34 Fiction. Asian Studies. This sometimes disturbing, always illuminating collection of stories centers around China”s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today, with both sides still hold out, and with apologies forthcoming. Xujun Eberlein lived in China during that tumultuous period and now makes her home in America. Xujun Eberlein is a fresh voice in American fiction, a Chinese writer with a remarkably shrewd, interesting tongue….There is a richness in her vision that sets it apart — Jay Parini. The stories have a subtly addictive momentum — Sven Birkerts.

August Sleepwalker $12.95 Among the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals in modern China, Bei Dao both reflects and criticizes the conflicts of the Cultural Revolution of the late sixties and seventies.

Autocracy and China’s Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu $43.04 What kind of _ruler_ was Mao Zedong? Utilizing a rich mix of analysis and new translations, this book examines other imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Ming Taizu, the fourteenth-century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty, as well as critiques of Western and Chinese scholarship. The book then presents translations with commentary of PRC scholars on Taizu and Mao, showing the evolution in Chinese though toward both rulers from the Cultural Revolution to the Deng Xiaoping reform era.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress $26.98 Based on the international bestseller, Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970′s during the later stages of China’s cultural revolution. Two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu) are sent to a backwards mountainous region for a Maoist re-education. The two see and fall in love with the local beauty (Xun Zhou), the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name — referring to her only as the Little Seamstress — but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality.When they discover a hidden suitcase filled with banned books by western writers, they read these works to the little seamstress for hours on end in a secret meeting place. Thirsting for knowledge of the world beyond, she comes to love, in particular, Balzac and his friends. On her mystical journey, the Little Seamstress finds the courage to leave the village for broader horizons.

Balzac/Little Chinese Seamstress $203.67 The surprise literary sensation of 2001 is now available on audio. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution in China, two boys are exiled to the countryside for re-education. The boys find their salvation in two discoveries: a hidden cache of Chinese translations of Western classics and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. Unabridged. 5 CDs.

Before Mao: The Untold Story of Li Lisan and the Creation of Communist China $6.33 Combining an exceptional love story with a gripping tale of incarceration in Stalin’s gulag and later in Mao Tse-tung’s concentration camps, Patrick Lescot’s Before Mao is a deeply moving, beautifully told saga of Li Lisan, Mao’s predecessor at the head of the communist party and a key member of the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Told in an engaging, highly dramatic style that reads more like a novel than a standard history, Lescot skillfully unfolds this page-turning biography. Li, who led the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920s, was a rare survivor among the Chinese members of the International. Exiled and held hostage in the Soviet Union, he was eventually allowed to return to China after having been elected, in absentia, to Mao’s government. When Mao and Khrushchev fell out of power after 1959, the Chinese Communist Party demanded that Li divorce his Soviet wife, Lisa. When he refused, Lisa was only allowed to stay by becoming a Chinese citizen. Soon after, both would be victims of the Cultural Revolution. Moving from China to France to the Soviet Union and finally back to China, Before Mao is an extraordinary chronicle of the indomitable human spirit, allowing us to share in some true moments of emotion, where love wins over totalitarianism’s destruction of individuality (Le Monde).

Between Silences $21.11 Mixing autobiography with invented other voices, this book is an extraordinary meditation on what it means to have lived the history of China in the second half of the twentieth century. At its best, Ha Jin”s language is as accessible, penetrating, and mysterious as Pound”s Cathay. This is a profound book, an event. –Frank Bidart In these poems Ha Jin gives voice to the millions whose lives were altered and whose tongues were silenced by the Cultural Revolution. . . .If Ha Jin speaks in tongues in these poems, we feel him behind those voices–the hidden director behind the scenes–never as a presence filled with stridency and self-congratulation; he brings a great empathy and compassion to his depiction of the fallible men and women whose acts and attitudes together make up history. –Roger Gilbert, Hungry Mind Review

Black Ice: A Story of Modern China $39.93 The story of Mo Bing, from her underground days as a Party cadre during the Civil War, through denunciation during the Cultural Revolution to rehabilitation in the early 1990s. Brings to life the suffering, the adventure, the unvanquished idealism of the otherwise anonymous heroes and heroines of Chinas post-war period.

Broken Dragons: Crime and Corruption in Today’s China $9.09 China in the early 21st century is the world’s fastest-growing economy, offering business and cultural opportunities unparalleled in modern history. Yet the glamour of pristine skyscrapers and the glitz of the newly rich and famous hides an uglier reality, one where the ethics of revolution have been forgotten, only money secures justice, officials often tolerate inhumane living and working conditions and countless lives are ruined … In these fictionalised accounts of actual events and people, Bruce Dalbrack unveils the darker side of the Chinese economic miracle, and the important messages this holds for the future.

Brothers $105.08 A sweeping family saga, Brothers follows the parallel paths of two brothers born to different mothers. Da Chen paints a mesmerizing portrait of their lives, of their desperate love for the same woman, and of China during the cultural revolution.

Brothers $14.95 A sweeping family saga, Brothers follows the parallel paths of two brothers born to different mothers. Da Chen paints a mesmerizing portrait of their lives, of their desperate love for the same woman, and of China during the cultural revolution.

Brothers $16.95 A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we”ve never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne”er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers–a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet $26.33 A look at religious revival in Chinese-ruled Tibet following the Cultural Revolution in China. These essays reveal the vibrancy of the ancient Buddhist religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world. 37 photos.

Buddhist Healing Touch: A Self-Care Program for Pain Relief and Wellness $19.95 When Dr. Yen Ming-Sun was sentenced to hard manual labor during China’s Cultural Revolution, he served his sentence in the shadow of the Lin-Yang Shih, an ancient Buddhist temple in the mountains near Fuchow. There he witnessed the impressive healing work performed by a Buddhist monk on the Red Guard’s prisoners, many of whom had sustained beatings and physical injuries. For the next three years he worked as the monk’s assistant, learning techniques that had been handed down in Buddhist tradition for centuries.In Buddhist Healing Touch, Dr. Yen teaches us how to care for ourselves naturally by using acupressure, self-massage, breathing techniques, exercises, and herbal remedies. He looks at a wide range of conditions, from abdominal cramps to sinusitis. A brief diagnostic description is provided for each condition, followed by a step-by-step guide to the most effective acupressure and massage techniques for treating it. Illustrations of the acupressure points accompany each treatment as well as tips regarding diet and relevant folk cures. Possible complications are also indicated with clear instructions for when to seek the care and advice of a qualified physician.

Burma, the Drug Pool — A Memoir $19.88 Written in Chinese, this book is an inspiring memoir of growing up in the difficult times of China before and during the Cultural Revolution and being imprisoned by the country he loved for treason. Now, enjoying his golden years in the United States, the author is free to tell his story, but with many puzzling questions including whether life is randomly controlled by fate or faith.

Burning Books And Leveling Libraries $42.16 Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world’s libraries occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern. In her previous book Libricide, Rebecca Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet. But authoritarian governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists of all stripes–through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence–are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as she demonstrates in this new book. Burning Books and Leveling Libraries is structured in three parts. BLPart I is devoted to struggles by extremists over voice and power at the local level, where destruction of books and libraries is employed as a tactic of political or ethnic protest. BLPart II discusses the aftermath of power struggles in Germany, Afghanistan, and Cambodia, where the winners were utopians who purged libraries in efforts to purify their societies and maintain power. BLPart III examines the fate of libraries when there is war and a resulting power vacuum. The book concludes with a discussion of the events in Iraq in 2003, and the responsibility of American war strategists for the widespread pillaging that ensued after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. This case poignantly demonstrates the ease with which an oppressed people, given the collapse of civil restraints, may claim freedom as license for anarchy, construing it as the right to prevail, while ignoringits implicit mandate of social responsibility. Using military might to enforce ideals (in this case democracy and freedom) is futile, Knuth argues, if insufficient consideration is given to humanitarian, security, and cultural concerns.

Butterfly Tears $52.99 Butterfly Tears is a collection of short fiction that depicts the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and the United States and examine Chinese women’s cross-cultural experiences in North America as well as women’s issues and political discrimination in China. The stories, or parts of stories, set in China give the reader glimpses into events such as the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s death.

Chairman Mao Badges: Symbols and Slogans of the Cultural Revolution $156.21 Millions of Chairman Mao badges were produced during China’s Cultural Revolution, and were worn by almost all Chinese people, from Premier Zhou Enlai down to the smallest child. Made in a wide variety of materials (aluminium, plastic, bamboo, porcelain, gold, silver, copper, iron and lead) and with an extensive range of shapes, sizes and designs, they immediately became collectors’ items. To give an idea of scale, in China today serious collections start at 10,000 different Mao badges. This catalogue starts with the modest collection of 300 Mao badges at the British Museum. It is the first serious catalogue of its kind in a Western language. While Chinese catalogues assume an extensive prior knowledge of Chinese revolutionary history, this new English catalogue is designed for the beginner and specialist alike, offering a narrative history, as well as extensive glossaries of the symbolic imagery and slogans found on the badges.

Challenging the Mandate of Heaven $36.95 Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution — surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China’s record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back to the third century B.C. This book, by bringing together studies of protest that span the imperial, Republican, and Communist eras, introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from Western cases.

China $22.16 China’s dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world’s fourth largest economy, with a net product larger than that of France and the United Kingdom. And China’s dynamism is by no means limited to its economy: enrollments in secondary and higher education are rapidly expanding, and new means of communication are vastly increasing information available to the Chinese public. In two decades, the Chinese government has also transformed its foreign relations–Beijing is now consulted on virtually every key development within the region. However, the Communist Party of China still dominates all aspects of political life. The Politburo is still self-selecting, Beijing chooses province governors, censorship is widespread, and treatment of dissidents remains harsh. In China, leading experts provide an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Edited with an introduction by David B. H. Denoon, an authority on China, this volume of articles covers recent events and key issues in understanding this growing superpower. Organized into three thematic sections–foreign policy and national security, economic policy and social issues, and domestic politics and governance–the essays cover salient topics such as China’s military power, de-communization, growing economic strength, nationalism, and the possibility for democracy. The volume also contains current maps as well as a Recent Chronology of Events which provides a decade’s worth ofinformation on the region, organized by year and by country.Contributors: Liu Binyan, David B.H. Denoon, Bruce J. Dickson, June Teufel Dreyer, Michael Dutton, Elizabeth Economy, Barry Eichengreen, Edward Friedman, Dru C. Gladney, Paul H. B. Godwin, Merle Goldman, Richard Madsen, Barry

China 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution Revisited $75 China 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution Revisited

China Art Now $20.11 The Cultural Revolution suppresed the creativity of the Chinese people for a generation, but following the death of Mao in 1976, Chinese artists immediately began making their mark on the international art scene. Never has interest in Chinese contemporary art been greater than it is now at galleries in London, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and even Beijing. China Art Now examines the trends in the explosive generation of contemporary artists by visiting them where they live and work, in thirty fascinating studios on mainland China and in the US. In painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking spaces – this book highlights not only the artists’ governing aesthetics, but also their everyday working life. Featuring texts by leading art historians and color photographs, this is a detailed, scholarly, yet accessible reference guide for anyone interested in the wave of creativity currently sweeping through Chinese art.

China In War And Revolution, 1895-1949 $54.29 In 1895 the military forces of the Great Qing Empire were defeated by Japan. The stakes seemed modest – a struggle for supremacy in peripheral Korea – but the defeat prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals in China and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. In a larger sense, it also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, to democratize the political system, and to build a fairer and more unified society. The book weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in depth central themes of China’s transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from the methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies and empirical historicism. China in War and Revolution draws a picture of the personalities, ideas, and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades.

China Mailbag – Uncensored: Letters from an American GI in World War II China and India $217.62 An American military officer fighting in the Chinese Army in WWII awakens to a captivating way of life. His burgeoning insight translated into dynamic illustrated explanations to his worried wife back home. Since the Cultural Revolution, even these places disappeared from history. In China Mailbag – Uncensored, discover an exotic Chinese culture now lost.

China Since 1919 – Revolution and Reform $41.53 This collection begins with the cultural renaissance of the early 20th century, the rebellion against Western and Japanese imperialism after 1919, the rise of the Nationalist and Communist movements and their conflict in mainland China until the Communist victory of 1949. After that, the focus is on the revolutionary changes under Mao Zedong’s regime, and the ideological struggles after his death. Under Deng Ziaoping economic reform prompted rapid growth but also led to calls for greater political freedom, culminating in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. The final chapters illustrate the problems the regime faces today, including the ambitions of the Tibetan minority, and social issues such as unemployment and corruption. Next to domestic issues, China’s role in the Korean War and changing relations with the USA and Soviet Union are also covered. The collection includes classic documents as well as less accessible extracts, including a number available in English for the first time. Anyone interested inthe modern history of China will find China Since 1919 an invaluable source of information.

China Since 1919 – Revolution and Reform: A Sourcebook $268.41 This collection begins with the cultural renaissance of the early 20th century, the rebellion against Western and Japanese imperialism after 1919, the rise of the Nationalist and Communist movements and their conflict in mainland China until the Communist victory of 1949. After that, the focus is on the revolutionary changes under Mao Zedong’s regime, and the ideological struggles after his death. Under Deng Ziaoping economic reform prompted rapid growth but also led to calls for greater political freedom, culminating in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. The final chapters illustrate the problems the regime faces today, including the ambitions of the Tibetan minority, and social issues such as unemployment and corruption. Next to domestic issues, China’s role in the Korean War and changing relations with the USA and Soviet Union are also covered. The collection includes classic documents as well as less accessible extracts, including a number available in English for the first time. Anyone interested inthe modern history of China will find China Since 1919 an invaluable source of information.

China Since The Cultural Revolution $91.95 This book provides an alternative analytical approach to the study of China’s political changes since the Cultural Revolution, which treats those changes as a transition from totalitarianism to authoritarianism. While depicting important political-economic events, it focuses on the changes in such major sociopolitical factors as the people’s attitude toward the regime, government policy, the ruling methods of the regime, and the interrelationships among them. Based on the analyses of these factors, the book also predicts the future of the current Communist regime in terms of the challenges it will face and its ability to meet them.

China Style $13.06 Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces standing side-by-side with concrete-and-steel high rises, and rural simplicity contrasting urban chaos. China Style looks at interiors that draw from this vivid and powerful tradition. It includes examples of Shanghai Art Deco and the unique Peranakan shop house, as well as modern clubs sumptuously furnished with glittering fabrics and Chinese design motifs, minimalistic glass houses, and restaurants with a cultural-revolution flair. Photographed in locations as diverse as Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, and Minneapolis, China Style shows how Chinese tradition is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh and dynamic style of contemporary design.

China Under Communism $29.95 China Under Communism examines how Marxism took root, flourished and developed within the context of an ancient Chinese civilization. Through analysis of China”s history and traditional culture, the author explores the nature of Chinese communism and how it has diverged from the Soviet model. This book also provides insight into the changing perceptions Westerners have of the Chinese, and vice versa. Key features include: * assessment of controversial issues: The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and Mao”s record* coverage of gender and family, ethnicity, nationalism, and popular culture* long historical context. This timely evaluation details how China”s political and economic policies have been inextricably linked, and assesses past failures and successes, as well as major problems for the future.

China Witness $16.95 China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation”s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel”s Working and Tom Brokaw”s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China–a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.

China and Africa $168 With Chinas rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as Chinas hunger for energy resources grows and many African countries seek a partner that, unlike the West, does not worry about democracy and transparency, or impose political conditions on economic relations.Ian Taylor, one of the foremost authorities on the international relations and political economy of Africa, provides a comprehensive assessment of relations between China and Africa. He discusses the historical evolution of Sino-African relations in the period since the 1949 revolution, with particular emphasis on the period since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Considering in detail Chinas relations with Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Malawi, Taylor demonstrates how China has used the rhetoric of anti-hegemonies to secure and promote its position in the Third World.Taylor gives an engaging account of the hitherto under-researched topic of relations between China and Africa, a phenomenon of growing importance in contemporary international politics.

China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 $268.21 In 1895 the military forces of the Great Qing Empire were defeated by Japan. The stakes seemed modest – a struggle for supremacy in peripheral Korea – but the defeat prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals in China and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. In a larger sense, it also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, to democratize the political system, and to build a fairer and more unified society. The book weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in depth central themes of China’s transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from the methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies and empirical historicism. China in War and Revolution draws a picture of the personalities, ideas, and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades.

China the Land $16.31 Stunning new photographs capture the timeless majesty of the Chinese landscape. Updated information includes problems faced by Tibet and other autonomous regions, the Cultural Revolution, and more. Full-color photos.

China the Land $7.95 Stunning new photographs capture the timeless majesty of the Chinese landscape. Updated information includes problems faced by Tibet and other autonomous regions, the Cultural Revolution, and more. Full-color photos.

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