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Deng Xiaoping and the making of modern China
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ISBN: 0140139451 Year: 1995 Publisher: London ; New York ; Ringwood ; Toronto ; Auckland : Penguin Books,

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A revolutionary all his life and one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Deng Xiaoping has shaped China and its place in the world as they exist today. In this major study, Richard Evans examines Deng Xiaoping's life in the context of the events of Chinese history : the ascent of Communism, the Long March, the Japanese invasion, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square. More than a fascinating biography, this book is also a revealing exploration of the history, geography and culture of China.


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The Chinese Communist Party in transformation : the crisis of identity and possibility for renewal
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ISBN: 9789811211980 9811211981 9789811211997 9789811212000 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Jersey World Scientific

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The book is part of the recent effort to catch up with the research on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite its omnipresence and pivotal role in running the country, there has been a conspicuous shortage of references to the Party in most studies related to China. In its stead, the academic literature as well as popular discussions has too often treated the CCP as a type of regime destined to the dustbin of history. The inadequacy of research in this area is understandable because CCP is a tightly organised Leninist party which has kept much of its internal affairs confidential. This book examines the key aspects of the transformation of CCP in the rapidly changing national and global context. It highlights the problems faced by the ruling Leninist party in adapting to a capitalistic environment that its organisations cannot fully control and its ideology cannot effectively rationalise. It also examines CCP's strategies for adaptation in the areas of ideological reformulation, party-society relations and the ways of exercising power and maintaining internal cohesion. In addition to helping the readers understand how China is ruled and how the Chinese system operates, the book also highlights the evolutionary dynamics of Chinese politics in the environment created by CCP's reform and open-door policies.


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Boerenopstanden in China 1840-1949.
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ISBN: 9021815346 Year: 1977 Publisher: Leiden Sijthoff

Revolution and the people in Russia and China : a comparative history
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ISBN: 9780521713962 9780521886376 9781139167482 9780511396700 0511396708 9780511399053 0521886376 052171396X 1139167480 1107186781 1281383287 9786611383282 051139747X 0511398212 0511399057 0511395973 1316334686 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia and China, though very different societies, were both dynastic empires with backward agrarian economies that suddenly experienced the impact of capitalist modernity. This book argues that far more happened to these migrants than simply being transformed from peasants into workers. It explores the migrants' identification with their native homes; how they acquired new understandings of themselves as individuals and new gender and national identities. It asks how these identity transformations fed into the wider political, social and cultural processes that culminated in the revolutionary crises in Russia and China, and how the Communist regimes that emerged viewed these transformations in the working classes they claimed to represent.

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