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  • MAO’S CHINA AND POST-MAO CHINA
    Robert Weatherley / WEATHERLEY ROBERT
    If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China underwent two revolutions, a number of wars, endured a radical and destabilising form of communism and then hurried quickly towards a system of open market economics whilst remaining under the control of a nominally communist party....
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    83,00 €

  • MAO’S CHINA AND POST-MAO CHINA
    Robert Weatherley / WEATHERLEY ROBERT
    If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China underwent two revolutions, a number of wars, endured a radical and destabilising form of communism and then hurried quickly towards a system of open market economics whilst remaining under the control of a nominally communist party....
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    153,50 €

  • History and Nationalist Legitimacy in Contemporary China
    Qiang Zhang / Robert Weatherley
    This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to bolster its nationalist legitimacy through the utilisation of Chinese history. The authors identify two different modes of nationalism - aggressive and consensual - both of which are linked to the historical memory of the late Qing Dynasty and Republican era. Aggressive nationalism dwells on China’s traum...
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    144,88 €

  • Making China Strong
    Robert Weatherley
    Robert Weatherley examines the role of nationalism in Chinese thinking on democracy and human rights spanning four successive periods: the late Qing, the Republic, Mao’s China and post-Mao China. During this time, many of the debates in China about democracy and rights have been tied to the question of how to make China strong. The trigger is usually a perceived threat from for...
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    65,25 €

  • Politics in China since 1949
    Robert Weatherley
    This probing study of post-communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system. ...
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    57,14 €

  • Mao’s Forgotten Successor
    Robert Weatherley
    This book examines the political career of Hua Guofeng, Mao’s successor as paramount leader in 1976. Hua emerged seemingly out of nowhere following an unexceptional career as a young revolutionary in Shanxi and a provincial official in Hunan. It was in Hunan that Hua became well-known to Mao and Hua’s loyalty to Mao while he was there, just when Mao needed it most, helped to fa...
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    65,29 €

  • Mao’s Forgotten Successor
    Robert Weatherley
    Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, emerging almost out of nowhere following an unexceptional career in Shanxi and Hunan. In just over two years, Hua had been eclipsed by Deng Xiaoping, a more politically shrewd, progressive and charismatic figure. If Hua’s rise to power was remarkable, then this fall was even more so. ...
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    48,20 €

  • Mao’s Forgotten Successor
    Robert Weatherley
    Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, emerging almost out of nowhere following an unexceptional career in Shanxi and Hunan. In just over two years, Hua had been eclipsed by Deng Xiaoping, a more politically shrewd, progressive and charismatic figure. If Hua’s rise to power was remarkable, then this fall was even more so. ...
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    66,79 €

  • Politics in China since 1949
    Robert Weatherley
    Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political affairs, a blend of Marxist and nationalist ideology, and the charismatic authority of ...
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    180,25 €

  • The Discourse of Human Rights in China
    Robert Weatherley
    The purpose of this study is to examine the emergence and evolution of the idea of rights in China, and to outline some of the main sources of influence--external and internal, ancient and contemporary--that make up this idea. ...
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    133,14 €