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Property Rights and Economic Reform in China

By: Jean Chun Oi,Andrew George Walder

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Property Rights and Economic Reform in China

By: Jean Chun Oi,Andrew George Walder

Revisions of papers presented at a conference at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996.

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Stanford University Press

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0804737886

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9780804737883

China Under Mao

A Revolution Derailed

By: Andrew George Walder

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China Under Mao

A Revolution Derailed

By: Andrew George Walder

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. “Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today...[It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others).” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Andrew Walder’s account of Mao’s time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful...Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao’s China and pulls them apart...What was it that led so much of China’s population to follow Mao’s orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder’s book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world’s most important revolutions.” —Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement

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Harvard University Press

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0674058151

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9780674058156

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

By: Andrew G. Walder

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Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

By: Andrew G. Walder

Shanghai’s January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China’s Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, along with the subsequent attempt to establish a “commune” form of municipal government, has greatly shaped our understanding both of the goals originally envisaged for the Cultural Revolution by its leaders and of the political positions held by the new corps of Party leaders thrust upward during its course—most notably Chang Ch’un ch’iao. At this interpretive level, the events in Shanghai seem to embody in microcosm the issues and conflicts in Chinese politics during the Cultural Revolution as a whole, while at the same time shaping our conception of what these larger issues and conflicts were. At the more general, theoretical level, however, the events in Shanghai provide us with an unusual opportunity (thanks to Red Guard raids on Party offices) to view the internal workings of the Party organization under a period of stress and to observe unrestrained interest group formation and mass political conflict through the press accounts provided by these unofficial groups themselves. The January Revolution thus provides us with an opportunity to develop better our more abstract, theoretical understanding of the functioning of the Chinese political system and the dynamics of the social system in which it operates. [1]

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U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

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0472038257

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9780472038251

Civil War in Guangxi

The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery

By: Andrew G. Walder

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Civil War in Guangxi

The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery

By: Andrew G. Walder

Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the site of the most severe and extensive violence observed anywhere in China during that period of upheaval. Several cities saw urban combat resembling civil war, while waves of mass killings in rural communities generated enormous death tolls. More than one hundred thousand died in a few short months. These events have been chronicled in sensational accounts that include horrific descriptions of gruesome murders, sexual violence, and even cannibalism. Only recently have scholars tried to explain why Guangxi was so much more violent than other regions. With evidence from a vast collection of classified materials compiled during an investigation by the Chinese government in the 1980s, this book reconsiders explanations that draw parallels with ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia, and other settings. It reveals mass killings as the byproduct of an intense top-down mobilization of rural militia against a stubborn factional insurgency, resembling brutal counterinsurgency campaigns in a variety of settings. Moving methodically through the evidence, Andrew Walder provides a groundbreaking new analysis of one the most shocking chapters of the Cultural Revolution.

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Stanford University Press

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1503635236

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9781503635234

Communist Neo-Traditionalism

Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

By: Andrew G. Walder

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Communist Neo-Traditionalism

Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

By: Andrew G. Walder

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

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Univ of California Press

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0520909003

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9780520909007

China Under Mao

A Revolution Derailed

By: Andrew George Walder

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A Revolution Derailed

By: Andrew George Walder

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Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

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Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

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Property Rights and Economic Reform in China

Property Rights and Economic Reform in China

China Under Mao

China Under Mao

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

Civil War in Guangxi

Civil War in Guangxi

Communist Neo-Traditionalism

Communist Neo-Traditionalism

China Under Mao

China Under Mao

Communist Neo-traditionalism

Communist Neo-traditionalism

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