Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China by Steve Tsang, Hung-mao Tien

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel

Balzac and the Little chinese language Seamstress is a fascinating story that captures the magic of examining and the beauty of romantic awakening. a right away foreign bestseller, it tells the tale of 2 hapless urban boys exiled to a distant mountain village for re-education in the course of China’s notorious Cultural Revolution.

Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History

Mao Zedong's Little crimson e-book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the chinese language leader's speeches and writings - is likely one of the so much obvious and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism.

Published for the 1st time in 1964, it swiftly turned the must-have accent for pink Guards and revolutionaries from Berkeley to Bamako. but, regardless of its around the globe movement and enduring presence there has, in the past, been no severe scholarly attempt to appreciate this seminal textual content as a world ancient phenomenon.

Mao's Little purple booklet brings jointly quite a number cutting edge students from world wide to discover the interesting number of makes use of and varieties that Mao's Quotations has taken, from rhetoric, artwork and track, to talisman, badge, and weapon.

The authors of this pioneering quantity use Mao's Quotations as a medium by which to re-evaluate the heritage of the twentieth-century global, hard verified principles in regards to the booklet to bare its extraordinary international influence.

Tibetan ritual

Ritual is likely one of the such a lot pervasive spiritual phenomena within the Tibetan cultural global. regardless of its ubiquity and value to Tibetan cultural existence, notwithstanding, in simple terms in recent times has Tibetan ritual been given the eye it merits. this can be the 1st scholarly assortment to target this crucial topic.

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