Revolutionary Discourse In Maos Republic

Author : David Ernest Apter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674767805
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic written by David Ernest Apter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique interpretation of the revolutionary process in China uses empirical evidence as well as concepts from contemporary cultural studies. Apter and Saich base their analysis on recently available primary sources on party history, accounts of the Long March and Yan'an period, and interviews with veterans and their relatives.

Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840153
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Twentieth Century written by Giovanni Arrighi and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.

Author : Ban Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188614
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Their Stories written by Ban Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of dislocations and ruptures in China’s revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words projects critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134902182
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 4: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931-34 written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465377
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, Dec.1920-June 1927 written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040414
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Revolution written by Roderick MACFARQUHAR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Stuart Schram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317515897
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Road to Power written by Stuart Schram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465296
Total Pages : 932 pages
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Download or read book Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938) written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1936, after a decade of Civil War and even before the Xi'an Incident, Mao Zedong had begun talking about a "New Stage" of cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party. With the establishment of a framework for cooperation between the two parties, and as Japan began its brutal war against China, Mao began to develop this theme more systematically in both the political and military spheres. This volume documents the evolution of Mao's thinking in this area that found its culmination in his long report to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the Central Committee in October, 1938, explicitly entitled "On the New Stage" and presented here in its entirety. It was also during this period that Mao delivered a course of lectures on dialectical materialism after reading and annotating a number of works on Marxist theory by Soviet and Chinese authors. These lectures, from which "On Practice" and "On Contradiction" were later extracted, are also translated here in their entirety.

Author : Chang-tai Hung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501716611
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's New World written by Chang-tai Hung and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet influence, but the nationalistic Chinese Communists sought an independent road of nation building; for example, they decided that the reconstructed Tiananmen Square should surpass Red Square in size and significance, against the advice of Soviet experts sent from Moscow. Combining historical, cultural, and anthropological inquiries, Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949–1959). Using archival sources only recently made available, previously untapped government documents, visual materials, memoirs, and interviews with surviving participants in the Party's plans, Hung argues that the exploitation of new cultural forms for political ends was one of the most significant achievements of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The book features sixty-six images of architecture, monuments, and artwork to document how the CCP invented the heroic tales of the Communist Revolution.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465407
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20 written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution in its Leninist guise has been a dominant force in the world for most of the 20th century, and the Chinese revolution has been, with the Russian revolution, one of its two most important manifestations. Mao Zedong, the architect of victory in China in 1949, stands out as one of the dominant figures of the century. Guerilla leader, strategist, conqueror, ruler, poet and philosopher, he placed his imprint on China, and on the world. Even though today communism is widely seen as bankrupt, Mao Zedong's achievements as an innovative disciple of Lenin and Stalin in the most populous nation on earth guarantees his place in history. Whatever the ultimate fate of communism in China, the fact of Mao's influence on events during more than five decades, and its resonance after his death, will remain. This edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including not only the 20-volume edition published in Tokyo years ago, but many new materials issued in China since 1978, both openly and for internal circulation. The editors have pursued a threefold goal: firstly, to translate every text by Mao which could be obtained, so as to make this English version as complete as possible; secondly, to annotate the materials in sufficient detail to make them accessible to the non-specialist reader; and thirdly, to combine accuracy with a level of literary quality which is intended to make the volumes agreeable as well as instructive to read. Volume 1 includes translations of the entire contents of the authoritative "Mao Zedong Zaoqi Wengao 1912.6-1920.11" ("Draft writings from Mao Zedong's early period, June 1912-November 1920"), published in Beijing in 1990, plus some 15 additional texts for the same period which have been attributed to Mao. Among the items thus made available in English are his first surviving work, a middle school essay of 1912 in praise of Shang Yang; his very extensive "Classroom Notes" of late 1913 on the lectures of his most influential teachers, Yang Changji and "Yuan the Big Beard"; a dozen letters to his then close friend Xiao Zisheng (Siao-yu), who described a shared odyssey in "Mao-Tse-tung and I were Beggars"; his marginal annotations of 1918 to the German philosopher Friedrich Paulsen's work on ethics, in which Mao proclaimed himself a believer in "individualism" and an admirer of Nietzsche; and many important letters, articles, and other writings documenting his evolution from liberalism to anarchism and finally to Marxism in 1919-1920.