The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Paperback - Mobo Gao

Reducere. Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As Chin...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Cultur...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Lei X. OuyangIllustration(s): 13 black & white photographs, 13 music examples, 13 tables, glossar...

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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...

Jan Eric Johnson's autobiography set during the turbulent Vietnam and Civil Rights era is a reveling look into the real life adventures and challen...

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Reducere. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its w...

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A history of the Cultural Revolution in communist China, which ran from 1962 to 1976. The idea was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist el...

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DescriptionEver since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow...

This guidebook gives comprehensive information about: - Major battles and battlefields- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues- How to get there...

Read about the life of Brian Boru and the battle that changed the course of Irish history in this exciting and accessible account.

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Elizabeth WilliamsonNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 238 x 46Cover type: Hardbac...

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...

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The spiritual being known as Michael has accompanied humanity on its path from the cosmos to the earth since the very beginning and in this regard,...

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China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This bo...

Subtitled, }A New History In The Words Of The Men & Women On Both Sides{. The latest in the bestselling }Forgotten Voices{ series, this draws on ma...

Explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of...

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When TED, the global media platform, took down scientist Rupert Sheldrake's lecture, "The Science Delusion, " deeming it not scientific, it ignited...

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The Battle for Moscow - David Stahel

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Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-yea...

The visual chronicle of Joe Biden's eight years as vice president to Barack Obama, revealing in intimate detail who the presumptive 2020 Democratic...

In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan's Panjwayi region surprised an unexpectedly large force of Taliban fig...

A memoir by one of the original female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s - Shares Rosemary's early experimentation with psychedelics in the 1950s, ...

Reducere. DescriptionMao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Lan...

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This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island off Ireland's Atlantic coast during the nineteenth ...

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