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first ed. 8vo, Illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes, Red cloth with black titles and designs. index. Includes sections on "The Cinderella Of Chulo"; "The Banished Immortal"; and "The Emperor And The Monk". 214p. Very good
8vo, hardcover, When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China s Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China s present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership. Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organized crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay
Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good hardback copy. Signed limited edition of 300 copies, this n. 225. xxii, 157pp. Translated and described by Howard Levy.
8vo, 248 pages, maps, figures, tables. eng
Undated later digital reprint. As-new condition. Minor shelfwear to printed boards: contents clean, sound, bright throughout. Used
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight edge wear of dust jacket. Dedication written on FEP (in English and Chinese). Used
Paperback with minor shelfwear, stained front cover. Previous owner's name on title; contents otherwise clean, sound, bright. TPW Used
8vo, hardcover, Woei Lien Chong (Editor), Anne-Marie Brady (Contributor), Lowell Dittmer (Contributor), Monika Gaenssbauer (Contributor), Nick Knight (Contributor), Stefan R. Landsberger (Contributor), Nora Sausmikat (Contributor), Barend J. ter Haar (Contributor), Treating China s Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR s discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.
8vo hardcoveIn the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children mostly girls have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China s approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter. Johnson spent years talking with the Chinese parents driven to relinquish their daughters during the brutal birth-planning campaigns of the 1990s and early 2000s, and, with "China s Hidden Children, "she paints a startlingly different picture. The decision to give up a daughter, she shows, is not a facile one, but one almost always fraught with grief and dictated by fear. Were it not for the constant threat of punishment for breaching the country s stringent birth-planning policies, most Chinese parents would have raised their daughters despite the cultural preference for sons. With clear understanding and compassion for the families, Johnson describes their desperate efforts to conceal the birth of second or third daughters from the authorities. As the Chinese government cracked down on those caught concealing an out-of-plan child, strategies for surrendering children changed from arranging adoptions or sending them to live with rural family to secret placement at carefully chosen doorsteps and, finally, abandonment in public places. In the twenty-first century, China s so-called abandoned children have increasingly become stolen children, as declining fertility rates have left the dwindling number of children available for adoption more vulnerable to child trafficking. In addition, government seizures of locally but illegally adopted children and children hidden within their birth families mean that even legal adopters have unknowingly adopted children taken from parents and sent to orphanages. The image of the unwanted daughter remains commonplace in Western conceptions of China. With "China s Hidden Children, " Johnson reveals the complex web of love, secrecy, and pain woven in the coerced decision to give one s child up for adoption and the profound negative impact China s birth-planning campaigns have on Chinese families.". r, as new.
374 pages. Index. Prior owner's ink stamp atop half-title page. Some markings and underlining to contents. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Sound working copy. Book
Soft Cover. very good. 352 pp. ISBN: 067411972X
8vo, ex library stamps and labels ow very good. Ex-Library
Very large hardback shows some edge wear. Tears and edge wear to dust jacket. Slight marking. Crease to front endpaper. 10"w x 13 3/4"h. 234 pages.
8vo with material on Urban Population and Population Numbers. Indexed. 405p. First Edition
Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Stated First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
8vo, wraps, Numerous colour illustrations & photographs throughout. Each double page contains a full-page colour illustration with accompanying small colour photograph of the respective Chinese flower on opposing page, plus descriptive text. Text in English.The artist was born in Nanjing in 1935 and is well known for his free-style birds and flowers. There are 79pp beautifully illustrated all in colour. Front cover shows red and white tree peonies.
204 pages including selected bibliography and index. "Considers two major aspects of China's economic reform: the new 'open policy' towards the west, aimed at attracting technology and skills into the country, and the new emphasis on 'regionalization', which has established market-orientated rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic development. Provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the prospects for China's regional development in the future." - from dust jacket. Minimal wear. Tight and square. Red cloth-covered boards. Ink underlining and marginalia. Light wear to dust jacket with one inch opening at top of front fore-edge. Solid attractive copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 35 plates on 31 and 2 large folding maps on japon, half-title lightly spotted otherwise some very light and occasional marginal spotting to text; original pictorial blue cloth, upper elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its faint tape-marks on covers, bookplate on front paste-down, press-mark on front free endpaper and small blind stamp on title. Well-illustrated account of the revolution at Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang. One of the first Caucasians to live in China for any length of time, Dingle was resident in Hankow at the outbreak and remained throughout the revolt. Includes a valuable set of otherwise unpublished photographs of localities, military detail and leading personalities (many of the images are from the Upward collection). The author was appointed FRGS and later founded the School of Mentalphysics in California. RARE.
8vo, br. ed.
first edition; vi, 217, [1] pp., paper wrappers
First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 700 pages. Incorporating the results of research by well-known Chinese economists, this work is a first attempt to give an account of the development of China's socialist economy. Includes many previously unpublished details of events and figures which have emerged through the sifting of a large quantity of historical documents. Divided into five parts: Rehabilitation (1949-52); The First Five-Year Plan (1953-57); The "Great Leap Forward" and Readjustment (1958-65); The "Cultural Revolution" (1966-76); A New Plan for Socialist Modernation (1976-84). Students of China's economic history will find this book invaluable
First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xiii + 177 pages with index, references, glossary. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and drawings.
Decenas de fotografias en color. Edicion bilingüe ingles/chino.
Soft Cover. 9.25 inches high.as new Decorated wraps (man, with field in background). 2-inch by 3.25-From "Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology" series. B&W photos. 165 pp. ISBN: 0030603293
