Harvard Contemporary China Series – serie
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17 produkter
Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China
Av Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry
Häftad, 2002
683 kr
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This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century, raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization.After slow but steady moves toward a new conception of citizenship …
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
Av Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle Goldman
Häftad, 2007
361 kr
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Observers often note the glaring contrast between China's stunning economic progress and stalled political reforms. Although sustained growth in GNP has not brought democratization at the national level, this does not mean that the Chinese political system has remained unchanged. At the grassroots …
Popular Protest in China
Häftad, 2008
361 kr
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Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are …
One Country, Two Societies
Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
Häftad, 2010
341 kr
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This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural–urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 …
Mao’s Invisible Hand
The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China
Av Sebastian Heilmann, Elizabeth J. Perry
Häftad, 2011
262 kr
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Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative …
Evolutionary Governance in China
State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism
Av Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
289 kr
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The People’s Republic of China has experienced numerous challenges and undergone tremendous structural changes over the past four decades. The party-state now faces a fundamental tension in its pursuit of social stability and regime durability. Repressive state strategies enable the Chinese …
Engendering China
Women, Culture, and the State
Av Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
821 kr
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This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural—and interdisciplinary—dialogue. For the first time, the voices of China-based scholars are heard alongside scholars positioned in the United States. The distinguished …
Chinese Animation – Multiplicities in Motion
Multiplicities in Motion
Av Daisy Yan Du, Yiman Wang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
695 kr
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Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) …
Chinese Animation
Multiplicities in Motion
Av Daisy Yan Du, John A. Crespi m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
314 kr
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Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) …
Uncanny Beliefs
Superstition in Modern Chinese History
Av Emily Baum, Albert Wu
Häftad, 2026
305 kr
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In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the …
Traversing the Belt and Road
The World According to China and China According to the World
Av Min Ye, Jorge Heine m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
314 kr
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Is China’s signature global strategy a boon to world development or a channel for control? Traversing the Belt and Road brings together leading voices from China and across the globe to examine the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a decade after its launch. Spanning Asia, Europe, Latin America, and …
From May Fourth to June Fourth
Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China
Av Ellen Widmer, David Der-wei Wang
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918–1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century …
Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms
Av Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar
Häftad, 1999
527 kr
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China’s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s—the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world—ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China’s unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising …
Red Legacies in China
Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution
Av Jie Li, Enhua Zhang
Häftad, 2016
359 kr
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What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose red legacies as a new critical framework from which to examine the …
Science and Technology in Post-Mao China
Av Denis Fred Simon, Merle Goldman
Häftad, 1988
186 kr
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Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past …
Zouping in Transition
The Process of Reform in Rural North China
Häftad, 1998
432 kr
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Zouping offers important general lessons for the study of China's rural transformation. The authors in this volume, all participants in a unique field research project undertaken from 1988 to 1992, address questions that are far from simple and about which there is some controversy.The questions …
Beyond Regimes
China and India Compared
Av Prasenjit Duara, Elizabeth J. Perry
Häftad, 2018
391 kr
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For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal …
