Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman - 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 Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman write by Brian DeMare. This book was released on 2022. Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using rare archival sources, this book weaves together four stories of criminal counterrevolution to examine the arrival of Communist power in the Chinese countryside.
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman - 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 Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman write by Brian DeMare. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the law. Drawing on these largely overlooked resources, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman follows four criminal cases that together uniquely illuminate the dawning years of the People's Republic. Using a unique casefile approach, Brian DeMare recounts stories of a Confucian scholar who found himself allied with bandits and secret society members; a farmer who murdered a cadre; an evil tyrant who exploited religious traditions to avoid prosecution; and a merchant accused of a crime he did not commit. Each case is a tremendous tale, complete with memorable characters, plot twists, and drama. And while all depict the enemies of New China, each also reveals details of village life during this most pivotal moment of recent Chinese history. Together, the narratives bring rural regime change to life, illustrating how the Chinese Communist Party cemented its authority through mass political campaigns, careful legal investigations, and sheer patience. Balancing storytelling with historical inquiry, this book is at once a grassroots view of rural China's legal system and its application to apparent counterrevolutionaries, and a lesson in archival research itself.
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman - 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 Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman write by Brian DeMare. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the law. Drawing on these largely overlooked resources, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman follows four criminal cases that together uniquely illuminate the dawning years of the People's Republic. Using a unique casefile approach, Brian DeMare recounts stories of a Confucian scholar who found himself allied with bandits and secret society members; a farmer who murdered a cadre; an evil tyrant who exploited religious traditions to avoid prosecution; and a merchant accused of a crime he did not commit. Each case is a tremendous tale, complete with memorable characters, plot twists, and drama. And while all depict the enemies of New China, each also reveals details of village life during this most pivotal moment of recent Chinese history. Together, the narratives bring rural regime change to life, illustrating how the Chinese Communist Party cemented its authority through mass political campaigns, careful legal investigations, and sheer patience. Balancing storytelling with historical inquiry, this book is at once a grassroots view of rural China's legal system and its application to apparent counterrevolutionaries, and a lesson in archival research itself.
Land Wars
Land Wars - 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 Land Wars write by Brian J. DeMare. This book was released on 2019. Land Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality, at great human cost.
The End and the Beginning
The End and the Beginning - 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 The End and the Beginning write by Hermynia Zur Mühlen. This book was released on 2010. The End and the Beginning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
