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"This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as the People's Republic of China. It will also be useful for more advanced students who need to understand developments in China outside their own primary disciplines. The book provides an up-to-date and clear guide to the changes which have taken place in China in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including the recent further changes which are taking place under Xi Jinping's regime. It draws on the enormous body of empirical and theoretical research that is being carried out by economists, political scientists and sociologists on China, but is itself written in non-technical and accessible language. It does not assume any previous knowledge of China and explanations of Chinese terms are provided throughout the book. It includes a map, a chronology, a glossary of Chinese terms, biographical notes on key figures, and a guide to further reading"--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Life and Career of an Enigmatic Revolutionary -- Chapter 1 Growing up in Huai'an, The Northeast, Tianjin and Japan: 1898-1920 -- Chapter 2 French Lessons and Revolutionary Politics: 1920-4 -- Chapter 3 Guangzhou and the Huangpu Military Academy: 1924-6 -- Chapter 4 In The Eye of the Storm, Shanghai and Wuhan: 1927 -- Chapter 5 Crisis for CCP and 6th Party Congress in Moscow: 1927-8 -- Chapter 6 Jiangxi Soviet: 1931-4 -- Chapter 7 Long March and Yan'an: 1936 -- Chapter 8 Kidnap and Resistance: Xi'an 1936-7 -- Chapter 9 Partners at War: 1937-45 -- Chapter 10 Chongqing and Nanjing - War, Civil War and the Aftermath: 1937-43 -- Chapter 11 Preparing for Power - Yan'an, Chongqing and Nanjing: 1943-6 -- Chapter 12 Civil War to People's Republic: 1946-9 -- Chapter 13 Premier and Foreign Minister: 1949-55 -- Chapter 14 From Rustic Stage to International Arena: 1954-5 -- Chapter 15 The Intelligentsia and Internal Power Struggles: 1955-7 -- Chapter 16 Asian Diplomatic Mission: 1956-7 -- Chapter 17 'Rectification' and 'Rightists': 1957 -- Chapter 18 Into the Crucible - The Great Leap Forward: 1958 -- Chapter 19 High Noon at Lushan: 1958-9 -- Chapter 20 Famine, Drought and Recovery: 1959-62 -- Chapter 21 Twilight of the Long March Leadership-Prelude to Cultural Revolution: 1962-5 -- Chapter 22 Unnatural Disaster-Cultural Revolution: 1966-7 -- Chapter 23 Descent Into Chaos, Recovery and Final Years: 1967-76 -- Epilogue: Zhou Enlai, The Lost Leader? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dragons, Majorities and Minorities -- 1. Evolution of Ethnic Classification and Policies -- 2. Multicultural Beijing Past and Present: Lama Temple and Chinese Ethnic Culture Park -- 3. Hakkas: A Han Minority -- 4. Hui Muslims and their Neighbours in Northwest China -- 5. Xinjiang and the Uyghurs -- 6. Mongols of Inner Mongolia -- 7. Tibet and the Tibetans -- 8. Minorities of the Southwest: Yunnan Province -- 9. Manchus: The Renaissance of an Ethnic Group -- 10. Minor Minorities and Disputed Identities -- 11. Taiwan: Another China, Another Model -- 12. Ethnic-minority Policies: Unity and Conflict -- Conclusion: Ethnic Minorities in the Age of Xi Jinping -- China's National Minorities (shaoshu minzu) -- References -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Preliminary Material -- The Evolution of Population Census Undertakings in China, 1953–2010 /Xiaogang Wu and Guangye He -- Regionalism in China's Postwar Reconstruction /Cheng Ch'eng-K'un -- China's Changing Regional Disparities during the Reform Period /Long Gen Ying -- A Review of China's Economy in 1970 /W. Klatt -- Economic Development Prospects and Problems in China /Alexander Eckstein -- China's Transitional Economy: Interpreting Its Significance /Andrew G. Walder -- Economic Analysis of the People's Republic of China /Gregory C. Chow -- Economic Reform and Social Change in China: Past, Present, and Future of the Economic State /Sheying Chen -- Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism /Victor Nee and Rebecca Matthews -- China's Unbalanced Economic Growth /C.W. Kenneth Keng -- Land Redistribution in Communist China /Frank C. Lee -- Communist China's Agrarian Policy, 1954–56 /S.B. Thomas -- Contracts in China Revisited, with a Focus on Agriculture, 1949–63 /Richard M. Pfeffer -- Foodgrains Output in the People's Republic of China, 1958–1965 /Subramanian Swamy and Shahid Javed Burki -- Why China Imports Wheat /Feng-Hwa Mah -- The Evolution of Agricultural Policy /Robert F. Ash -- 40 Years On: Provincial Contrasts in China's Rural Economic Development /Kenneth R. Walker -- The Production Responsibility System in Chinese Agriculture: Some Examples from Guangdong /Graham E. Johnson -- A New Direction for China's State Farms /Dennis Woodward -- Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China /Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger -- Farmers' Preferences Regarding Ownership and Land Tenure in Post-Mao China: Unexpected Evidence from Eight Counties /James Kai-sing Kung and Shouying Liu -- Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices /Samuel P.S. Ho and George C.S. Lin -- Stagnation without Equity: Patterns of Growth and Inequality in China's Rural Economy /Scott Rozelle -- Research Note: The Changing Grain Marketing System in China /Cheng Yuk-shing and Tsang Shu-ki -- Redefining State, Plan and Market: China's Reforms in Agricultural Commerce /Terry Sicular -- The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in the post-Mao Era, 1977–87 /Jae Ho Chung -- China's Agrarian Reform and the Privatization of Land: A contrarian view /Qian Forrest Zhang and John A. Donaldson -- Industrial Production in Communist China: 1957–1968 /Robert Michael Field -- Small Industry and the Chinese Model of Development /Carl Riskin -- Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township /Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan -- Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform /Andrew G. Walder -- Industrial Relations in China: The New Line /M.D. Fletcher -- New Bosses in the Workers' State: The Growth of Non-State Sector Employment in China /Lora Sabin -- The Illicit Asset Stripping of Chinese State Firms /X.L. Ding -- Subsistence Crises, Managerial Corruption and Labour Protests in China /Feng Chen -- Guanxi and the Allocation of Urban Jobs in China /Yanjie Bian -- Learning from Ta-ch'ing: China's Oil Prospects /W. Klatt.

Preliminary Material -- The Evolution of Population Census Undertakings in China, 1953–2010 /Xiaogang Wu and Guangye He -- Regionalism in China's Postwar Reconstruction /Cheng Ch'eng-K'un -- China's Changing Regional Disparities during the Reform Period /Long Gen Ying -- A Review of China's Economy in 1970 /W. Klatt -- Economic Development Prospects and Problems in China /Alexander Eckstein -- China's Transitional Economy: Interpreting Its Significance /Andrew G. Walder -- Economic Analysis of the People's Republic of China /Gregory C. Chow -- Economic Reform and Social Change in China: Past, Present, and Future of the Economic State /Sheying Chen -- Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism /Victor Nee and Rebecca Matthews -- China's Unbalanced Economic Growth /C.W. Kenneth Keng -- Land Redistribution in Communist China /Frank C. Lee -- Communist China's Agrarian Policy, 1954–56 /S.B. Thomas -- Contracts in China Revisited, with a Focus on Agriculture, 1949–63 /Richard M. Pfeffer -- Foodgrains Output in the People's Republic of China, 1958–1965 /Subramanian Swamy and Shahid Javed Burki -- Why China Imports Wheat /Feng-Hwa Mah -- The Evolution of Agricultural Policy /Robert F. Ash -- 40 Years On: Provincial Contrasts in China's Rural Economic Development /Kenneth R. Walker -- The Production Responsibility System in Chinese Agriculture: Some Examples from Guangdong /Graham E. Johnson -- A New Direction for China's State Farms /Dennis Woodward -- Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China /Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger -- Farmers' Preferences Regarding Ownership and Land Tenure in Post-Mao China: Unexpected Evidence from Eight Counties /James Kai-sing Kung and Shouying Liu -- Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices /Samuel P.S. Ho and George C.S. Lin -- Stagnation without Equity: Patterns of Growth and Inequality in China's Rural Economy /Scott Rozelle -- Research Note: The Changing Grain Marketing System in China /Cheng Yuk-shing and Tsang Shu-ki -- Redefining State, Plan and Market: China's Reforms in Agricultural Commerce /Terry Sicular -- The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in the post-Mao Era, 1977–87 /Jae Ho Chung -- China's Agrarian Reform and the Privatization of Land: A contrarian view /Qian Forrest Zhang and John A. Donaldson -- Industrial Production in Communist China: 1957–1968 /Robert Michael Field -- Small Industry and the Chinese Model of Development /Carl Riskin -- Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township /Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan -- Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform /Andrew G. Walder -- Industrial Relations in China: The New Line /M.D. Fletcher -- New Bosses in the Workers' State: The Growth of Non-State Sector Employment in China /Lora Sabin -- The Illicit Asset Stripping of Chinese State Firms /X.L. Ding -- Subsistence Crises, Managerial Corruption and Labour Protests in China /Feng Chen -- Guanxi and the Allocation of Urban Jobs in China /Yanjie Bian -- Learning from Ta-ch'ing: China's Oil Prospects /W. Klatt.

Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned into one of the greatest powers of the 21st century. His 'Four Modernisations' - reform in agriculture, industry, military, science and technology - unveiled at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee in 1978 undoubtedly paved the way for China's rise to superpower status. Yet, only a decade after this, his greatest achievement, Deng fell dramatically from grace, becoming reviled both within and outside of China as the man responsible for crushing the democracy movement in the carnage of Tiananmen Square. In this book, Michael Dillon uncovers the true story of Deng Xiaoping

1. A political analytic of finitude : the infinity of finite government and rule -- 2. Biopolitics of security in the twenty-first century -- 3. Government, economy and biopolitics -- 4. Underwriting security -- 5. Politics of truth and pious economies -- 6. Biopolitics of security, race and war -- 7. Governing terror : the state of emergency of biopolitical emergence -- Conclusion : acceleration of the baroque katechon.

Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed by a novel account of time and human finitude, which it calls 'factical finitude'. The correlate of factical finitude is the infinite, and the book explains how the problematisation of politics and security became that of securing the infinite government of finite things. It then explains how concrete political form was given to factical finitude by a combination of geopolitics and biopolitics. Modern sovereignty required the services of biopolitics from the very beginning. The essays explain how these politics of security arose at the same time, changed together, and have remained closely allied ever since. In particular, the book explains how biopolitics of security changed in response to the molecularisation and digitalisation of Life, and demonstrates how this has given rise to the dangers and contradictions of 21st century security politics. This book will be of much interest to students of political and cultural theory, critical security studies and International Relations. --Provided by publisher.

"Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their Great Game rivalry in Asia. Ruled by warlords in the early twentieth century, it was occupied in 1949-50 by the People's Liberation Army, since when attempts have been made to integrate the province more fully into China. This book outlines the history of Xinjiang. It focuses on the key city of Kashgar, the symbolic heart of Uighur society, drawing on a large body of records in which ordinary people provided information on the period around the communist takeover. These records provide an exceptionally rich source, showing how ordinary Uyghurs lived their everyday lives before the communist takeover, and how their lives were profoundly affected by the communist takeover. Subjects covered by the book include Eastern Turkestan independence, regional politics, local government, the military, taxation, education and the press"--

"This book is the first full length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice"--

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