Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 write by Xiaorong Han. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.
Red God
Red God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red God write by Xiaorong Han. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Red God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robin Hood–style revolutionary Wei Baqun is often described as one of China's "three great peasant leaders," alongside Mao Zedong and Peng Pai. In his home county of Donglan, where he started organizing peasants in the early 1920s, Wei Baqun came to be considered a demigod after his death—a communist revolutionary with supernatural powers. So much legend has grown up around this fascinating figure that it is difficult to know the truth from the tale. Presenting Wei Baqun's life in light of interactions between his local community and the Chinese nation, Red God is organized around the journeys he made from his multiethnic frontier county to major cities where he picked up ideas, methods, and contacts, and around the three revolts he launched back home. Xiaorong Han explores the congruencies and conflicts of local, regional, and national forces at play during Wei Baqun's lifetime while examining his role as a link between his Zhuang people and the Han majority, between the village and the city, and between the periphery and the center.
Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949)
Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) write by James Z. Gao. This book was released on 2009-06-16. Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political, military, economic, social, and cultural development of modern China. Instead of focusing merely on the political elites of China, this reference covers a variety of significant persons, including women and ethnic minorities; new historical concepts; cultural and educational institutions; and economic activities. Drawing on newly-available records, including a large mass of governmental and family archives, the narratives presented reveal new facts, offer a new interpretation in accordance with China's modernization process during the late Qing period, and a revisionist perspective on the Republican history. The chronology records not only political and military events but also other experiences of the Chinese people. The bibliography gives prominence to current literature on China's drive towards modernization and appendixes provide the reader with detailed information on China's cultural and economic transformation.
Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society
Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society write by Arif Dirlik. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America in turn place these transformations in a comparative global perspective. The contributors include distinguished scholars from the UN, PRC, India, Zimbabwe, and Latin America who are also active in policy issues."
China's Lonely Revolution
China's Lonely Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Lonely Revolution write by Jeremy A. Murray. This book was released on 2017-03-27. China's Lonely Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956. Jeremy A. Murrays study of local Communist revolutionaries in Hainan between 1926 and 1956 provides a window into the diversity and complexity of the Chinese revolution. Long at the margins of the Chinese state, Hainan was once known by mainlanders only for its malarial climate and fierce indigenous people. In spite of efforts by the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese to exterminate Hainans Communists, the movement survived because of an alliance with the indigenous Li. For years it persevered, though in complete isolation from Communist headquarters on the mainland. Using Chinese-language sources, archival materials, and interviews, Murray draws a vivid picture of this movement from the Hainanese perspective, and broadens our understanding of how patriotism, Party loyalty, and Chinese identity have been experienced and interpreted in modern China.
