Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China – serie
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Reproductive Realities in Modern China
Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021
Häftad, 2023
409 kr
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Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and …
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, China's European Headquarters charts not only how Switzerland came to play …
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China during the Cold War
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, China's European Headquarters charts not only how Switzerland came to play …
Shanghai Tai Chi
The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China
Av Hanchao Lu
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. …
Shanghai Tai Chi
The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China
Av Hanchao Lu
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. …
How to Make a Mao Suit
Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal …
How to Make a Mao Suit
Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976
Häftad, 2023
579 kr
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When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the transformation, using industry archives and personal …
Making Mao's Steelworks
Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
Av Koji Hirata
Häftad, 2024
451 kr
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Located in Manchuria (Northeast China), the geopolitical borderland between China, Russia, and Japan, among others, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang) was Mao-era China's most important industrial enterprise. The history of Angang from 1915 to 2000 reveals the hybrid nature of China's accelerated …
Making Mao's Steelworks
Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
Av Koji Hirata
Inbunden, 2024
1329 kr
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Located in Manchuria (Northeast China), the geopolitical borderland between China, Russia, and Japan, among others, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang) was Mao-era China's most important industrial enterprise. The history of Angang from 1915 to 2000 reveals the hybrid nature of China's accelerated …
A Hundred Flowers
How Literature Shaped Maoism
Häftad, 2026
617 kr
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In 1957, Shanghai journalism student Xu Chengmiao faced persecution for a poem about flowers. Why did his classmates, teachers, and eventually the full force of the Party-state react so intensely to Xu's floral poetry? What connection did his writing have to the flowers that had adorned Chinese …
A Hundred Flowers
How Literature Shaped Maoism
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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In 1957, Shanghai journalism student Xu Chengmiao faced persecution for a poem about flowers. Why did his classmates, teachers, and eventually the full force of the Party-state react so intensely to Xu's floral poetry? What connection did his writing have to the flowers that had adorned Chinese …
Communism in an Enchanted World
Chinese Folk Religion under Mao Zedong
Av S. A. Smith
Inbunden, 2026
506 kr
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Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao's China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained …
Supernatural Politics
Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949-79
Av S. A. Smith
Inbunden, 2026
481 kr
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In this landmark contribution to the study of modern China, Steve Smith examines the paradox of 'supernatural politics'. He shows that we cannot understand the meaning of the Communist revolution to the Han Chinese without exploring their belief in gods, ghosts and ancestors. China was a religious …
The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949
Av Xiaojun Feng
Inbunden, 2026
1575 kr
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Globally, most workers live precarious lives. In this examination of China's industrial relations since 1949, Xiaojun Feng explores why this should be. China provides an important case to examine this question because it has gone through both socialist revolution and marketized reforms, the major …
Urban Revolution
People's Communes in Beijing
Av Fabio Lanza
Inbunden, 2026
1526 kr
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During the Great Leap Forward (1958-62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In the first English history of urban collectivization, Fabio Lanza explores the most radical attempts to remake …
Urban Revolution
People's Communes in Beijing
Av Fabio Lanza
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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During the Great Leap Forward (1958-62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In the first English history of urban collectivization, Fabio Lanza explores the most radical attempts to remake …
Student Activism Across Borders
China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
Inbunden, 2026
1853 kr
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In 1957, Chinese university students mobilised to share forbidden information about Khrushchev's secret speech and unrest in Eastern Europe. Responding to Mao's call to criticize the party, they did so in the belief that they were perfecting socialism. In the devasting campaigns that followed Mao's …
Student Activism Across Borders
China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
Kommande
In 1957, Chinese university students mobilised to share forbidden information about Khrushchev's secret speech and unrest in Eastern Europe. Responding to Mao's call to criticize the party, they did so in the belief that they were perfecting socialism. In the devasting campaigns that followed Mao's …
Mao's Cultural Army
Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution
Inbunden, 2015
1641 kr
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Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full …
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960
Inbunden, 2016
1641 kr
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Xiaoping Cong examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a …
Mao's Cultural Army
Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution
Häftad, 2017
586 kr
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Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full …
Curating Revolution
Politics on Display in Mao's China
Av Denise Y. Ho
Häftad, 2017
491 kr
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How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum …
Curating Revolution
Politics on Display in Mao's China
Av Denise Y. Ho
Inbunden, 2017
1761 kr
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How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum …
Borderland Memories
Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
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In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution …
Borderland Memories
Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
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In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution …
Across the Great Divide
The Sent-down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980
Inbunden, 2019
1391 kr
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The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich archival research focused on …
Across the Great Divide
The Sent-down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980
Häftad, 2019
362 kr
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The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich archival research focused on …
Reproductive Realities in Modern China
Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and …
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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Xiaoping Cong examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a …
