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Book Shenfan

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Hinton
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780394723785
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book Shenfan written by William Hinton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Book Fanshen

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  • Author : William Hinton
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2008-04
  • ISBN : 1583679979
  • Pages : 669 pages

Download or read book Fanshen written by William Hinton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China’s complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.

Book Gang of One

Download or read book Gang of One written by Fan Shen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.

Book Great Reversal

Download or read book Great Reversal written by William Hinton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Reversal is the first critical study of the widely heralded reforms currently transforming China's economy. From his long experience in Chinese agriculture, Hinton first examines the course of agricultural reform over the past decade, then looks at its consequences in different areas of the countryside and considers its implications for the country as a whole. He raises troubling questions about China's capitalist future-the growing landlessness, increasing inequality, and above all, the destruction of the nation's natural resources and the collectively built infrastructure that was the great achievement of the revolution. In so doing he sheds new light on the sources of discontent behind the demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen massacre of June 1989. Recognized inside and outside China as an expert on the country's agriculture, Hinton spent five or six months there every year but one since 1978, when the wave of reform was first introduced. He witnessed the events of June 1989 first hand. This experience gives authority to an analysis that digs deeper and more widely than anything else available. His essays open up a new perspective on Mao and his successors, one that has been totally obscured by the Western media.

Book Through a Glass Darkly

Download or read book Through a Glass Darkly written by William Hinton and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a Glass Darkly was William Hinton’s last book. It draws on a lifetime of immersion in Chinese politics and society, beginning with the seven years he spent in China, working mainly in agriculture and land reform, until 1953. On his return to the United States in that year, Hinton first encountered the distortions and misrepresentations of the Chinese Revolution that he examines in this book. Hinton defends the achievements of the Chinese Revolution during the three decades from 1948 to 1979 from its detractors both in the United States and, since 1979, in China itself. His starting point is the work of John K. Fairbank, for many years a professor at Harvard and the “dean of China Studies” in the United States. But it is not limited to critique. Instead, Hinton’s critique of Fairbank leads into a wide-ranging examination of the nature of the transformation attempted in China, its social and political bases, and the causes and consequences of its policies in land reform, agriculture, combating famine, popular culture, industrialization, morality, and much else besides. Moving from large questions to concrete details, often drawn from his own experiences, Hinton brings everyday life in revolutionary China graphically to life. In a time when the distorted views first developed by U.S. critics of the Chinese Revolution are often propagated by the new Chinese elite themselves, Through a Glass Darkly has more than just historical relevance. For anyone wishing to understand present-day rivalries between the United States and China, Hinton shows how these began. This is a fitting completion of the work of a great scholar and revolutionary.

Book Turning Point in China

Download or read book Turning Point in China written by William Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Become Cruel Gay Prince s Concubine

Download or read book Become Cruel Gay Prince s Concubine written by Mei MeiMeiMeiMei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the changes in the court, Su Jinruo, who disguised herself as a man, left the official scene as the 'son' of a sinful official. However, it had only been half a month, yet she was forced to return to the capital. Looking at the bright red bridal dress before her, she frowned. "Prince, you said you would let me go." "Leave?" Shen Hancheng narrowed his eyes and leaned forward, "You still have the guts to leave after lying to me?" Liar, little liar! He had cheated her to such an extent. If he didn't marry her back home, he would never let her go!

Book In The Unlikely Event

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  • Author : L. J. Shen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-18
  • ISBN : 9781732624733
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book In The Unlikely Event written by L. J. Shen and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second-chance, enemies-to-lovers contemporaryu romance.

Book War at Home

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  • Author : Brian Glick
  • Publisher : South End Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780896083493
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book War at Home written by Brian Glick and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must handbook for private study and group discussion by all progressive and radical activists. Today's defense depends on our knowledge of yesterday's repression. The message: the political police haven't forgotten us--we can't afford to forget them and their methods.--Philip Agee, former CIA agent

Book Hundred Day War

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  • Author : William Hinton
  • Publisher : Monthly Review Press
  • Release : 1972-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780853452812
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hundred Day War written by William Hinton and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural Reform and Rural Transformation in China since 1949

Download or read book Agricultural Reform and Rural Transformation in China since 1949 written by Thomas DuBois and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both empirical account and theoretical analysis of a broad range of historical events and issues, such as the guiding policy framework of the “three rural issues,” the causes and consequences of the deep plowing movement and the development of public canteens during the Great Leap Forward, child care, enterprises and collectives, and private lending in the post-Mao era, and the changing dynamics of interregional flows of goods and people throughout the second half of the 20th century. These studies shed light on the historical origins of some of the agricultural and rural problems in China today.

Book US China Review

Download or read book US China Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Review

Download or read book Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Curation

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  • Author : Brad Buckley
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2020-01-29
  • ISBN : 1119206855
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Curation written by Brad Buckley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.

Book Loan Phonology

Download or read book Loan Phonology written by Andrea Calabrese and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language’s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism written by S. A. Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.

Book Negotiating Academic Literacies

Download or read book Negotiating Academic Literacies written by Vivian Zamel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures is a cross-over volume in the literature between first and second language/literacy. This anthology of articles brings together different voices from a range of publications and fields and unites them in pursuit of an understanding of how academic ways of knowing are acquired. The editors preface the collection of readings with a conceptual framework that reconsiders the current debate about the nature of academic literacies. In this volume, the term academic literacies denotes multiple approaches to knowledge, including reading and writing critically. College classrooms have become sites where a number of languages and cultures intersect. This is the case not only for students who are in the process of acquiring English, but for all learners who find themselves in an academic situation that exposes them to a new set of expectations. This book is a contribution to the effort to discover ways of supporting learning across languages and cultures--and to transform views about what it means to teach and learn, to read and write, and to think and know. Unique to this volume is the inclusion of the perspectives of writers as well as those of teachers and researchers. Furthermore, the contributors reveal their own struggles and accomplishments as they themselves have attempted to negotiate academic literacies. The chronological ordering of articles provides a historical perspective, demonstrating ways in which issues related to teaching and learning across cultures have been addressed over time. The readings have consistency in terms of quality, depth, and passion; they raise important philosophical questions even as they consider practical classroom applications. The editors provide a series of questions that enable the reader to engage in a generative and exciting process of reflection and inquiry. This book is both a reference for teachers who work or plan to work with diverse learners, and a text for graduate-level courses, primarily in bilingual and ESL studies, composition studies, English education, and literacy studies.