The winner of the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction and three Pushcart Prizes presents twelve stories set during China's Cultural Revolution, tales of moral degeneration and ideological cruelty that won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. UP.
Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.
Viet Nam, 1966: A dead body in a combat zone barely merits a second glance.
Looking at the political direction President Xi Jinping is taking, Magnus argues that Xi’s authoritarian and repressive philosophy is ultimately not compatible with the country’s economic aspirations.Thorough and well researched, the ...
For a discussion of these ideas, see B. Yack, The Longing for Total Revolution. Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (Berkeley, 1992), pp.256 ff. K. Marx, 'On James Mill', in K. Marx, ...
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Thorough and well researched, the book also investigates the potential for conflicts over trade, China's evolving relationship with Trump, and the country's attempt to win influence and control in Eurasia through the Belt and Road ...
For instance, these are the issues or questions that make us wonder why the Chinese people seem to excel in the sport of ping-pong, but not the sport of soccer; why Chinese cuisine seems to constitute an integral part of the lives of the ...
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