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Throughout the 1950s China implemented a code of laws, regulations and programmes whose effect was formally to differentiate residential groups as a means to control population movement and mobility (the hukou system). The article offers a documentary study tracing the origins and development of the hukou system of population registration and control, and scrutinizes its relationship to a host of connected institutions. (DÜI-Sen)

The emergence of family farms and the dissolution of the people's communes in the early 1980s initiated the transformation of China's rural command economy toward a market-oriented, family-centered economy. Since the 1980s China's family-farm system has demonstrated its superiority to the farmer collective system in providing incentives for farmers to raise productivity. The authors assess a range of issues confronting China's rural economy in the 1990s from the perspective of the potential contribution of autonomous cooperatives to comprehensive rural development on the foundation of a thriving family-farm sector. (DÜI-Sen)

Negros, the fourth largest island of the Philippines, accounts for two-thirds of the nations's sugar production. The interview on sugar and sugar workers in Negros was conducted on 22 July 1989. The workers talk about the political economy of sugar in Negros, the livelihood of sugar workers, the problem of organizing sugar workers, counter insurgency and civil war in Negros and Cooperative Farm-Lot Program. (DÜI-Sen)

An introduction to Chinese society that uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It includes chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science.

Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century.The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era.This book continues the dramatic story in the authors' prizewinning Chinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval

The United States and Japan in twentieth century Asian wars / Mark Selden -- State terror versus humanitarian law / Richard Falk -- American airpower and nuclear strategy in Northeast Asia since 1945 / Bruce Cumings -- When god(s) and Buddhas go to war / Brian Daizen Victoria -- Japanese racism, war, and the POW experience / Utsumi Aiko -- The waters covered the earth : China's war-induced natural disasters / Diana Lary -- Drugs and oil : the deep politics of U.S. Asian wars / Peter Dale Scott -- War, genocide, and resistance in East Timor, 1975-1999 : comparative reflections on Cambodia / Ben Kiernan -- Resisting state terror : the anti-Vietnam War movement / Marilyn B. Young -- Resisting nuclear terror : Japanese and U.S. antinuclear movements since 1945 / Lawrence S. Wittner

Something unusual happened on 5 March 2009 in the quiet compound of the French school known as Sciences Po, the National Foundation for Political Science, from which most of the past and present French governmental elite graduated. It was the first day of a major conference on "Memory, The Writing of History and Democratization" that assembled political scientists, sociologists, and historians, addressing a vast array of issues related to World War Two, Stalinism and Maoism, and recent African wars. Around one hundred people had gathered in one of the main lecture halls. The first session was ending when a woman from the audience quickly approached the speakers' table. She was not your typical academic conference attendant. A bailiff, she was there to hand one of the speakers a subpoena to appear before the Paris district court at the request of the "French Sasakawa Foundation" (FFJDS).1 The Foundation, having filed a libel suit against that particular scholar, had chosen this flamboyant way to make the case public.