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The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128
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ISBN: 9781107155985 9781316659298 9781316609699 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
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ISBN: 052136518X 052142707X 9781316266106 1316266109 9780521365185 9780521427074 131626257X 1316265013 131626355X 1316260631 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, [England] ; Melbourne, Australia : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language and, drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history.


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The specter of "the people"
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ISBN: 0801451655 0801467438 9780801467431 0801478642 1322504873 080146742X 9780801451652 9780801478642 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca

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Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban unemployment, transforming the proletariat vanguard into a new urban poor. How do unemployed workers come to terms with their split status, economically marginalized but still rhetorically central to the way China claims to understand itself? How does a state dedicated to serving "the people" manage the poverty of its citizens? Mun Young Cho addresses these questions in a book based on more than two years of fieldwork in a decaying residential area of Harbin in the northeast province of Heilongjiang.Cho analyzes the different experiences of poverty among laid-off urban workers and recent rural-to-urban migrants, two groups that share a common economic duress in China's Rustbelt cities but who rarely unite as one class owed protection by the state. Impoverished workers, she shows, seek protection and recognition by making claims about "the people" and what they deserve. They redeploy the very language that the party-state had once used to venerate them, although their claim often contradicts government directives regarding how "the people" should be reborn as self-managing subjects. The slogan "serve the people" is no longer a promise of the party-state but rather a demand made by the unemployed and the poor.

Provinzportrats der VR China : geographie, wirtschaft, gesellschaft
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ISBN: 3889100864 Year: 1991 Volume: 193 Publisher: Hamburg Institut für Asienkunde

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