Redefining Propaganda in Modern China. The Mao Era and Its Legacies, Paperback - ***

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume captu...

A collection of essays about Land art, one of the most important artistic movements of our times.

Reducere. Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American...

The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of...

Reducere. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent time...

DescriptionThis study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey tha...

Educational institutions have been a crucial state apparatus in shaping the cultural identity and ideology of ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malay...

Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932...

DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of...

Reducere. Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that tra...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Brit...

DescriptionTen Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinpin...

China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was...

Reducere. ``Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.`` --Asian Review of Books on Division to Unificat...

Reducere. DescriptionKwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as B...

Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining how...

Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining how...

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era. Usin...

Reducere. In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages--the first in the late ...

The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword...

This book examines the countries of Southeast Asia and how their relations with China have been transformed under the Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

Reducere. The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wanna...

Reducere. Arthur Waley s brilliant and definitive translation of one of the foremost of all mystical books, Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, has become a modern class...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The United States has been at war for 227 years of its 244-year history. It is currently at war in seven countries and its special forces operate i...

China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 96 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 21Cover type: Pap...

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Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Fra...

How has the Chinese central government been able to avoid the crippling hyperinflation that has bedeviled so many developing and centrally planned ...

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

Reducere. Traducere si note de Mugur ZloteaYu Hua este unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți scriitori chinezi – atat pentru romanele sale, cat și pentru bestselleru...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Daniel LargeNumber of pages: 250Collection: China TodayPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 210 x 25Cover type...

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty...

Reducere. Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Jing TsuNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frank DikoetterNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 40Cover type: Hardb...

China dupa Mao. Ascensiunea unei superputeri - Frank Dikotter

Reducere. DescriptionThis award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combini...

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The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often ...

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Reducere. Roger Faligot este jurnalist francez, care a inceput sa lucreze in Irlanda in 1973, dupa care a devenit reporter de investigatii pentru ziare si re...

DescriptionNew edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An id...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...