Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

From 1918 to 1933 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well-documented. Less well-kn...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Azmi BisharaNumber of pages: 744Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 48Cover type: Hardback...

Contributor(s): Author: Jan ZielonkaIs Europe disintegrating? Can open society survive? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel se...

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik lea...

DescriptionIn Trump's Counter-Revolution, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen looks behind the craziness of Donald Trump to decipher the formation of a new kind ...

DescriptionThis book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "stat...

Publisher: Semiotext (E)Author(s): Ames HodgeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Semiotext(e) / Intervention SeriesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 11...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hun...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communis...

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imper...

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 Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joseph W. EsherickIllustration(s): 6 color illustrations; 11 maps; 2 tablesNumber of pages: 346...

Reducere. More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China'...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Graham (University of Oxford China Centre, UK) HutchingsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Reducere. This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines, for the first time in any language, how General Francisco Franco and his N...

Award-winning author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Mie...

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, trans...

The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with...

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: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and re...

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...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cul...

Examining the interaction between the Communist Party of China [CCP] and specific social categories (including peasants, workers, the middle classe...

The definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Illustrations: 1 Graph, 5 Tables, and 1 Map in Text / Note...