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Buddhism under Mao
Av Holmes Welch
Inbunden, 1972
1686 kr
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Buddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely on materials from the Mainland press, Holmes Welch has made what is probably the most detailed study so far available of the fate of a world religion in a Communist …
Buddhist Revival in China
Av Holmes Welch
Inbunden, 1968
1275 kr
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Of all the world's major religions, Chinese Buddhism has probably experienced the most traumatic modernization. The establishment of a communist state quickly emerged from the self-contained Manchu Empire. The consequences are described in this book. Holmes Welch offers the first detailed account …
China’s Crisis, China’s Hope
Av Binyan Liu
Inbunden, 1990
475 kr
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The principal force in awakening the people and setting them on the road to struggle, Liu Binyan argues, has been the repeated mistakes of the Chinese Communist Party and the outrageous bureaucratic corruption it has allowed to flourish. Even as he describes the runaway inflation that inflicts …
China’s Republican Revolution
The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913
Inbunden, 1975
518 kr
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Imperialism, pernicious as it was in most respects, served as the prime catalyst for social change in China throughout the turbulent period from 1895 to 1913. Starting with this premise, Edward Rhoads traces the social, political, and economic history of the republican revolution. In his view, …
In Search of Wealth and Power
Yen Fu and the West
Häftad, 1964
384 kr
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In a serious effort to divine the secret of the West's success in achieving wealth and power, Yen Fu, a Chinese thinker, undertook, at the turn of the century, years of laborious translation and commentary on the work of such thinkers as Spencer, Huxley, Adam Smith, Mill, and Montesquieu. In …
Japan’s First Student Radicals
Inbunden, 1972
525 kr
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Long obscured by the more dramatic activities of post–World War II student activists, the history of the Japanese left-wing student movement during its formative period from 1918 until its suppression in the 1930s is analyzed here in detail for the first time. Focusing on the Shinjinkai (New Man …
Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era
Häftad, 1985
546 kr
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One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China’s …
One Step Ahead in China
Guangdong under Reform
Häftad, 1990
336 kr
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Sprawled along China's southern coast near Hong Kong, Guangdong is the fastest growing and most envied region in the country. With sixty million people in an area the size of France, the province has been a fascinating laboratory for the transformation of a static socialist economy and social …
Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900–1950
Av Holmes Welch
Inbunden, 1967
1549 kr
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Based partly on unpublished documents and oral information obtained from monks who headed major monasteries on mainland China, Holmes Welch presents a detailed description of the modern practice of Chinese Buddhism. Focusing on the actual rather than the theoretical observances of the religion, he …
Shanghai Modern
The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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In the midst of China’s wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once …
Toward Industrial Democracy
Management and Workers in Modern Japan
Av Kunio Odaka
Inbunden, 1975
330 kr
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In this study, Kunio Odaka discusses the complex attitudes of Japanese workers toward management, unions, work, and leisure. The results of his scholarly surveys indicate a trend toward the democratization of Japanese industrial management. In part, the book is a presentation of Odaka’s belief in …
Wang Kuo-wei
An Intellectual Biography
Av Joey Bonner
Inbunden, 1986
1124 kr
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In this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877–1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang’s intimate, …
While China Faced West
American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928–1937
Häftad, 1969
429 kr
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The years from 1928 to 1937 were the “Nanking decade” when the Chinese Nationalist government strove to build a new China with Western assistance. This was an interval of hope between the turbulence of the warlord-ridden twenties and the eight-year war with Japan that began in 1937. James Thomson …
