Published by Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2023
ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition. Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. Access to Communist Party archives has long been denied to all but the most loyal historians, but now a new law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting and magnificently detailed book chronicles an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented. Dikotter shows that instead of lifting the country among the world's superpowers and proving the power of communism, as Mao imagined, in reality the Great Leap Forward was a giant - and disastrous -- step in the opposite direction. He demonstrates, as nobody has before, that under this initiative the country became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history (at least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death) but also the greatest demolition of real estate - and catastrophe for the natural environment - in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned to rubble and the land savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. Piecing together both the vicious machinations in the corridors of power and the everyday experiences of ordinary people, Dikotter at last gives voice to the dead and disenfranchised. Exhaustively researched and brilliantly written, this magisterial, groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Published by Bloomsbury, 2010
ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Published by Walker & Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017
ISBN 10: 1632864231 ISBN 13: 9781632864239
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0804719942 ISBN 13: 9780804719940
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. Light pencil annotations throughout the book, cover has moderate rubbing, front endpaper has light smudging and edges have light wear. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Edges have moderate wear, cover has moderate rubbing, spine has moderate sun fading, inner jacket has light smudging and back cover has smudging. Otherwise book has tight binding with bright and sharp pages.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017
ISBN 10: 1632864231 ISBN 13: 9781632864239
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017
ISBN 10: 1632864231 ISBN 13: 9781632864239
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Published by Walker & Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Published by Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1995
ISBN 10: 9622093825 ISBN 13: 9789622093829
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Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Subtitle : 'Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period'. With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as the epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form the very core of an individual led to the emergence of a wide range of identities. The roots of such modernizing representations, however, appear to have been drawn from China's past as much as from discourse with the West. This study is based on medical and lay texts such as handbooks, marriage guides and texts on physiology and sexual hygiene. An epilogue shows how the sexual identities invented early in the 20th century are still in place in China today. A new/unread copy. Size: 22 x 14 cm.
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ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Published by Bloomsbury, 2010
ISBN 10: 0747595089 ISBN 13: 9780747595083
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017
ISBN 10: 1632864231 ISBN 13: 9781632864239
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. The Cultural Revolution by Professor Frank Dikotter. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2017. Paperback ISBN:9781632864239. Collectible item in very fine condition.