HIST 397: From Mao to Now: China's Red Revolution: Books

Translated from Chinese.
Collection of talks and speeches given between Sept. 1982 and June 1987.

vii, 814 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm

xi, 259 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm

v. 1. 1949-1957, From liberation to crisis.
v. 2. 1957-1965, The Great Leap Forward and its aftermath.
v. 3. 1965-1967, The Cultural Revolution, part I.
v. 4. 1967-1968, The Cultural Revolution, part II.
v. 5. 1968-1979, After the Cultural Revolution.
Includes all the major policy-related documents produced in the first 30 years of the Chinese communist regime. Organized chronologically, the volumes contain the full English texts of hundreds of official writings on ideology, politics, economics and foreign policy.

This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from the author’s introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th century. Strong on social and political history, as well as Chinese culture and its intersections with politics, this work is a longstanding leader in the survey course on modern China.

"A glimpse into Chinese souls at one of the most crucial turning points in their modern history." -Times of London

This is a compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s ’New Left’. It challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at the helm of design and production. Fashioning China looks at the women designers simultaneously subverting and reinforcing the nationalist-developmentalist, masculinist and technocratic dream of brands that are 'Made in China'.

"... offers a variety of ways to understand the world's most populous nation, giving a short, integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art."

A memoir by Liang of growing up during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution.

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution.

45 v. illus., ports., diagrs., facsims. 21 cm

v.2
-- The communist revolution—with central writings by Mao Zedong;
-- Works from contemporary China—featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.

--My Old Home pp. 54-64

--Mao Tun, “Spring Silkworms,” pp. 142-156.

76 p. illus. 19 cm

543 p. illus., col. maps (on lining papers), ports. 24 cm

352 p. 16 plates (incl. ports.), maps. 18 1/2 cm

xiv, 188 p. : map ; 21 cm

Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982. This volume "considers the developments in Mao’s thoughts and how they related to China’s government."

in PDF

Shelved at Watson Library -- East Asian Reference Collection

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

v. 1-4 Shelved at Watson Library -- East Asian Reference Collection

--“When I was in Xia Village,” pp. 236-61

Revolutionary Bodies is the first primary source-based history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, it analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Emily Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author

Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner.

" Blood Letters is one of the most important books on the Communist-era rights movements to be published in recent years."

Liu, Xiaobo, 1955-2017.