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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Jisheng

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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374716919

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9780374716912

Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

By: Yang Jisheng

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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

By: Yang Jisheng

An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

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658

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Macmillan

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0374277931

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9780374277932

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

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The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It examines the handshape inventory of SHSL in terms of its underlying featural specifications, phonetic realization and phonological processes such as assimilation, epenthesis, deletion, coalescence, non-dominant hand spread and weak drop. The authors define the role of the prosodic hierarchy in SHSL and analyze the linguistic functions of non-manual markers. This systematic investigation not only contributes to our understanding of SHSL itself, but also informs typological research on sign languages in the world.

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410

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111045552

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9783111045559

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The World Turned Upside Down

The World Turned Upside Down

Tombstone

Tombstone

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

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