Michel Oksenberg's Books

The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values and strategy on the other. The Cultural Revolution collects four papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968. Michel Oksenberg opens the volume by examining the impact of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups including peasants, industrial managers and workers, intellectuals, students, party and government officials, and the military. Carl Riskin is concerned with the economic effects of the revolution, taking up production trends in agriculture and industry, movements in foreign trade, and implications of Masoist economic policies for China’s economic growth. Robert A. Scalapino turns to China’s foreign policy behavior during this period, arguing that Chinese Communists in general, and Mao in particular, formed foreign policy with a curious combination of cosmic, utopian internationalism and practical ethnocentrism rooted both in Chinese tradition and Communist experience. Ezra F. Vogel closes the volume by exploring the structure of the conflict, the struggles between factions, and the character of those factions.

Studies the evolving relationship between China and the keystone international economic organizations

The description for this book, Policy Making in China, will be forthcoming.

A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June.

A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution and the Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands provide the backdrop to this study, which ranges from changing perceptions of time, space and nature to the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its influence on such far-flung fields as education, landscape gardening and politics. The book describes the high expectations people had of science and medicine, and their disappointment at the failure of these new branches of learning to cure the world of its ills.

This Council on Foreign Relations Study Group Report examines China's emerging power and U.S. foreign policy toward China, which, it concludes, has thus far been sadly lacking.

The description for this book, Policy Making in China, will be forthcoming.

Studies the evolving relationship between China and the keystone international economic organizations

An indispensable aid to researching a crucial series of policy statements, the present guide provides access to the only continuous source from China which illuminates high-level policy. Includes an extensive subject index.

Book's by Michel Oksenberg

The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution

China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT

China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT

Policy Making in China

Policy Making in China

Beijing Spring 1989

Beijing Spring 1989

Child of the Enlightenment

Child of the Enlightenment

The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution

Shaping U.S.-China Relations

Shaping U.S.-China Relations

Policy Making in China

Policy Making in China

China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT

China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT

Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975

Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975

Beijing Spring, 1989

Beijing Spring, 1989

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