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When Americans on the Left-and in the Center and on the Right, for that matter-turn their attention to the issue of protest in contemporary China, they most often think back to the traumatic upheavals of 1989, which began with inspiring student-led demonstrations in April and May and ended with the June massacres. What they sometimes forget, though, is that many of the Chinese who contributed to the struggle and who suffered most in that year of miracles and tragedies were not students. Some were young teachers, such as Liu Xiaobo, who is now world famous as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but who was then one of China's rising stars in the field of literary criticism. inspired by the bravery of student activists-as many journalists, schoolteachers, and professors were-he joined them at Tiananmen Square. Liu soon became one of the most impassioned voices within the movement calling for moderation; he strove to persuade the most militant students to avoid taking steps that would box the authorities into a corner and make it hard for any kind of compromise to be negotiated, even one that could be seen as a partial victory. In the end, Liu was among the last protesters to leave Tiananmen Square in the wee hours of June 4; as soldiers were firing on civilians nearby, he helped broker a deal that provided safe passage out of the plaza for many of the students who had remained there with him. He was later jailed for his alleged role as one of the inspirational "black hands" behind the movement, the first but not the last time he would end up a prisoner of conscience. Adapted from the source document.

China's government has managed rural-to-urban migration through heavyhanded policies that have guarded the prosperity of the cities at the expense of rural areas. …

The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects traditionally associated with feminism (such as family life) and those rarely considered from a gendered point of view (like banditry). The chapters provide a wealth of interesting detail on such varied topics as court cases involving widows and homosexuals; ideal spouses of early-twentieth-century radicals; changing images of prostitutes; the masculinity of qigong masters; sexuality in the era of reform; and the eroticization of minorities. While most of the essays were specifically written for this volume, a few are reprinted as a testament to their enduring value. Exploring the central role of gender as an organizing principle of Chinese social life, Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities is an innovative reader that will spark new debate in a wide range of disciplines

Collection of three articles on the foreign stimulus to develop a public sphere in China with special reference to Shanghai, the potency and persistence of myth and language in the context of the dispute about the officially-sanctioned wording of regulations in the municipal parks of foreign-administered Shanghai and the liberation of women as one of the priorities of the Chinese Communist Party and the abolition of prostitution in Shanghai. (DÜI-Sen)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Art List -- 1.1 World's Fair, Paris, 1889 -- 1.2 Marie Curie in her laboratory -- 1.3 "Even the Walls Have Ears" (1854) -- 1.4 New York skyline, 1904 -- 1.5 Queen Victoria presents a Bible to a colonial subject -- 1.6 "The Seine at Argenteuil" (1874) -- 1.7 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- 2.1 Imperial Palace, Peking -- 2.2 Saigon Cathedral, c. 1920 -- 2.3 "The Greedy Boy" (1885) -- 2.4 David Livingstone (1817-1873) -- 2.5 Colonial District Officer from an African perspective -- 2.6 Indian durbar, 1903 -- 3.1 Panama Canal, 1915 -- 3.2 Advertisement for Ivory soap (1913) -- 3.3 View of Chicago -- 3.4 Trading Company Building, Central Africa, c. 1930 -- 3.5 Migrant worker in the Great Depression, 1936 -- 3.6 German banknote from 1923 -- 3.7 Bomb destruction, England, 1940 -- 4.1 "The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789" (1859) -- 4.2 Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- 4.3 "The Events of May 1870 -- 4.4 Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) -- 4.5 Sun Yat-sen (1867-1925) -- 5.1 Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) -- 5.2 "Did You Join As Volunteers?" (c. 1920) -- 5.3 Workers on a collective farm, 1944 -- 5.4 Spanish battalion, c. 1937 118 -- 5.5 Striking workers, United States, 1934 -- 6.1 Hitler and SA troops, 1935 -- 6.2 Mussolini and Hitler, 1940 -- 6.3 Fascist party leader in Brazil, 1932 -- 6.4 Holocaust -- 6.5 Soviet poster from the World War II period -- 7.1 President Julius Nyerere (1922-1999) -- 7.2 Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) with three women -- 7.3 Jewish settlers, 1946 -- 7.4 Governor-General's palace, Brazzaville, Congo, c. 1935 -- 7.5 Big Three at Yalta, 1945 -- 7.6 Vietnamese refugees, 1968 -- 7.7 Celebrating democracy, Windhoek, Namibia, 1990 -- 8.1 Chinese Cultural Revolution poster -- 8.2 Banana plantation, Costa Rica, 1997 -- 8.3 Fidel Castro (1926-)

Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower in what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.