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Tiananmen Follies

Prison Memoirs and Other Writings

By: Qing Dai

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Tiananmen Follies

Prison Memoirs and Other Writings

By: Qing Dai

?Dai Qing?s ideal, as a public intellectual, can be summed up in her own words: ?Freedom of thought and independence of personality.? This might seem like a modest ambition, banal almost, but in China it is actually very hard to achieve ?? ? from the Foreword by Ian BurumaThis memoir by Dai Qing, China?s best-known investigative journalist, offers insight into the mental and physical tribulations that accompany imprisonment by an authoritarian government devoted to squeezing out ?confessions? of wrongdoing by its political opponents. Written in the early 1990s during her incarceration in Beijing?s notorious Qingcheng prison, this is a mournful and courageous document about her struggle with the travails of imprisonment for unstated ?crimes? following the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Along with personal letters to her family and descriptions of her cell and the numbing routine of prison life, this book contains verbatim translations of Dai?s forced ?confessions? to her jailers and the top political authorities in China. At times quite unflattering to the author, these documents show how difficult it was to stand up and explain away her actions during the hectic months from April to June 1989 when she and other intellectuals tried to stave off a confrontation between the government and the students occupying Tiananmen. Against the government?s claim that a widespread ?conspiracy? existed to overthrow the regime, of which Dai was a purported central figure, her confessions are a marvelous example of just how difficult it is to exculpate oneself from a political apparatus that marshals enormous evidence that paints any person?s actions as ?conspiratorial? and ?anti-Party.? Despite her obvious innocence, Dai gets caught in the web of accusations that all prosecutors bring to any person?s actions that are under ?investigation?: She finds that escape is nearly impossible, and so begins to accept the government?s view on certain matters, ending up fingering others in a manner that suggests previous collaborationist actions in China, the Soviet Union, and the West (the McCarthy hearings, for example) when an individual is isolated by political authorities bent on condemning its detractors.Prison Memoirs and Other Writings remains witty and filled with vivid descriptions of the absurdities of political imprisonment in any system. It is the final chapter in Dai Qing?s transformation from a beneficiary of the regime to one of its victims.

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Voices of Asia

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1891936522

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9781891936524

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

By: Yingcong Dai

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The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

By: Yingcong Dai

During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated struggle between the Zunghar Mongols and China over Tibet, Sichuan's neighbor to the west, and consequent developments in governance and taxation of the area. Through analysis of government documents, gazetteers, and private accounts, Yingcong Dai explores the intersections of political and social history, arguing that imperial strategy toward the southwestern frontier was pivotal in changing Sichuan's socioeconomic landscape. Government policies resulted in light taxation, immigration into Sichuan, and a military market for local products, thus altering Sichuan but ironically contributing toward the eventual demise of the Qing. Dai's detailed, objective analysis of China's historical relationship with Tibet will be useful for readers seeking to understand debates concerning Tibet's sovereignty, Tibetan theocratic government, and the political dimension of the system of incarnate Tibetan lamas (of which the Dalai Lama is one).

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University of Washington Press

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0295800704

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9780295800707

The White Lotus War

Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China

By: Yingcong Dai

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The White Lotus War

Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China

By: Yingcong Dai

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title The White Lotus War (1796–1804) in central China marked the end of the Qing dynasty’s golden age and the fatal weakening of the imperial system itself. What started as a local rebellion grew into a serious political crisis, as the central government was no longer able to operate its military machine. Yingcong Dai’s comprehensive investigation reveals that the White Lotus rebels would have remained a relatively minor threat, if not for the Qing’s ill-managed response. Dai shows that the officials in charge of the suppression campaign were half-hearted about the fight and took advantage of the campaign to pursue personal gains. She challenges assumptions that the Qing relied upon local militias to exterminate the rebels, showing instead that the hiring of civilians became a pretext for misappropriation of war funds, resulting in the devastatingly high cost of the war. The mishandled demilitarization of the militiamen prolonged the hostilities when many of the dismissed troops turned into rebels themselves. The war’s long-term impact presaged the beginning of the disintegration of the Qing in the mid-nineteenth century and eruptions of the Taiping Rebellion and other uprisings. The White Lotus War will interest students and scholars of late imperial and modern Chinese history, as well as history buffs interested in the warfare of the early modern world.

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665

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University of Washington Press

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0295745460

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9780295745466

Emerging from the Horizon of History

Modern Chinese Women’s Literature, 1917–1949

By: Yue Meng,Jinhua Dai

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Emerging from the Horizon of History

Modern Chinese Women’s Literature, 1917–1949

By: Yue Meng,Jinhua Dai

This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important female writers from 1919 to 1949, including Yin Lu, Xin Bing, Ning Ding, Ailing Zhang. By decade, the authors provide a comprehensive depiction of these female writers' historic-cultural background as well as their reception by critics and audiences. Navigating the complex relation between mainstream literary trends and female writers’ practice, this text represents a landmark of practice of literary feminist criticism within the Chinese language.

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332

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Springer Nature

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9819940044

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9789819940042

The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries

By: Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen

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The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries

By: Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen

In the currency culture of human history, there are two wonderful works that are immortal. One is that of China, an ancient Oriental civilization, which has influenced the currency culture of many Asian countries for more than a thousand years. The other is the monetary culture of ancient Greece, the birthplace of western monetary culture, which later gave rise to the Arab and Indian coin systems. This book presents survey on Chinese ancient currency of all ages, before moving on to elaborate upon the history of currency culture exchange between China and other countries, such as ancient Greece and Rome, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Asia, Western and central Asia. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on the currency development of the neighboring Asian regions and countries, as well as the interaction between ancient Chinese coins and European and American coins in different periods.

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225

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527580598

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9781527580596

Mount Lu Hun

Volume 1

By: Zhang Dai

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Mount Lu Hun

Volume 1

By: Zhang Dai

All your three kingdoms are in the world, while the world of the flat pea is in a mountain. Your three kingdoms all go out to collect your brothers and sisters to fish for beautiful girls and boast, but the world of flat peas, is only the morning dew against the sunset, the grass against the winter, the sky above the earth, against the spring and autumn and the earth above the mountains.

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Funstory

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164781572X

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9781647815721

Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers

One Century’s Fragrant Trace of Wisdom

By: Jianbing Dai,Yongyan Wang,Sumin Zhang

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One Century’s Fragrant Trace of Wisdom

By: Jianbing Dai,Yongyan Wang,Sumin Zhang

This book taps into the best elements of Chinese traditional culture to show respect to the pioneers of Hebei women’s education and to provide references to today’s education reform and development. It contains six chapters, describing the basic requirements for Chinese women of the Feudal Period, the development of women’s normal education, prominent educators in Home Economics, and the outstanding alumnae of Hebei Normal University. The book allows insights into the educational, social, cultural, economic and political movements from ancient China to the late Qing dynasty, the Republic of China, and the People’s Republic of China.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527527832

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9781527527836

The Moon in the Palace

By: Weina Dai Randel

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The Moon in the Palace

By: Weina Dai Randel

Randel's gorgeous debut novel seductively pulls back the curtain to reveal the heartbreaking world of...China."—Stephanie Dray, NYT bestselling Author of America's First Daughter A thrilling work of historical fiction, bringing romance, intrigue, and the unexpected rise of an Empress to intoxicating life under the inscrutable moon. In Tang Dynasty China, a concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention. Many hope to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. Young Mei knows nothing of these womanly arts, yet she will give the Emperor a gift he can never forget. Mei's intelligence and curiosity, the same traits that make her an outcast among the other concubines, impress the Emperor. But just as she is in a position to seduce the most powerful man in China, divided loyalties split the palace in two, culminating in a perilous battle that Mei can only hope to survive. In the breakthrough first volume in the Empress of Bright Moon duology, Weina Dai Randel paints a vibrant portrait of the Emperor's Palace—where love, ambition, and loyalty can spell life or death—and the woman who came to rule all of ancient China. "I absolutely loved The Moon in the Palace... A rare and beautiful treasure."—Elizabeth Chadwick, NYT bestselling author Winner of RWA RITA® Award 2017 Recommended by Texas Library Association's 2017 Lariat Reading List One of the Biggest Historical Fiction books of 2016 by Bookbub One of Washington Independent Reviews of Book's 25 Favorite Books of 2016 A San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention

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380

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492613576

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9781492613572

The River Dragon Has Come!

Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People

By: Dai Qing,John G. Thibodeau,Michael R Williams,Qing Dai,Ming Yi,Audrey Ronning Topping

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The River Dragon Has Come!

Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People

By: Dai Qing,John G. Thibodeau,Michael R Williams,Qing Dai,Ming Yi,Audrey Ronning Topping

In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.

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Routledge

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1315502763

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9781315502762

Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies

Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party 1942-1944

By: Dai Qing

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Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies

Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party 1942-1944

By: Dai Qing

This work investigates a case of political persecution that occurred over 50 years ago (the Wang case), but which still raises profound issues for the relationship between revolutionary regimes and the intellectuals who serve them. Song Jinshou has compiled a list of the documents of the Wang case.

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284

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Routledge

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1000149730

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9781000149739

A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty

By: Yi Dai

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A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty

By: Yi Dai

The Qing Dynasty was a feudal institution established by the upper dominant class of the Manchu ethnic minority; it was also the last of the feudal autocratic monarchy dynasties in China's long history. This account presents the history of the Manchurian rise, flourishing, decline, and demise and details the development, creation, and struggle for a modern China. Divided into four volumes, this valuable record begins with the ancestors of the Manchu and the Manchu ascendance and ends with the Opium War in 1840. It argues that as China entered the modern historical period, great and revolutionary changes took place in society?changes that were fundamentally different from those of the early and mid-Qing Dynasty.

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288

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Silkroad Press

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9814332186

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9789814332187

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

By: Yingcong Dai

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The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

By: Yingcong Dai

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Book's by Dai Qing

Tiananmen Follies

Tiananmen Follies

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

The White Lotus War

The White Lotus War

Emerging from the Horizon of History

Emerging from the Horizon of History

The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries

The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries

Mount Lu Hun

Mount Lu Hun

Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers

Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers

The Moon in the Palace

The Moon in the Palace

The River Dragon Has Come!

The River Dragon Has Come!

Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies

Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies

A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty

A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

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