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Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
Catherine Lynch
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Hardback. Series: AsiaWorld. Num Pages: 260 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, this volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through contested visions of the future. It contributes new insights into Mao Zedong, including his surprising relations with the Dalai Lama, and into Communist legacies for the environment, the rural economy, and independent filmmaking as protest, at the same time posing the question of whether the radical past of envisioning new paths to a modern future has yet a role to play.
Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, this volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through contested visions of the future. It contributes new insights into Mao Zedong, including his surprising relations with the Dalai Lama, and into Communist legacies for the environment, the rural economy, and independent filmmaking as protest, at the same time posing the question of whether the radical past of envisioning new paths to a modern future has yet a role to play.
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
AsiaWorld
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739165720
SKU
V9780739165720
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99-15
About Catherine Lynch
Catherine Lynch is Emeritus in the History Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Robert B. Marks is the Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College. Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies ... Read more
Reviews for Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
In this welcome collection of essays, the authors examine many of the issues with which Meisner grappled, from Mao's utopianism and the role of peasants in the Chinese revolution to China's relation to American imperialism. This work is especially noteworthy not only because these topics remain relevant today but also because the essays cohere around an important theme: how to ... Read more