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  • REINVENTING VIETNAMESE SOCIALISM
    WILLIAM S TURLEY / MARK SELDEN
    This book presents a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives on the problematic of reform in Vietnam. It explores the Vietnam's reforms in relation to those taking place in other countries of the socialist world, comparing doi moi with restructuring in other socialist states. ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
    JEAN-LUC DOMENACH / MARK SELDEN
    The first major study of the Great Leap Forward, this seminal volume has now been translated into English for a wider audience. Like no other work, it suggests compelling political and social answers to questions that have long plagued scholars: How could a party with such a successful rural base launch a movement so divorced from reality– especially in the countryside? Why was...

    $1,339.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMUNIST SYSTEMS
    BERNARD CHAVANCE / CHARLES HAUSS / MARK SELDEN
    In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve t...

    $1,099.00

  • OUR LAND WAS A FOREST
    MARK SELDEN
    This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down from generation to generation, the book chronicles the disappearing world—and c...

    $1,339.00

  • CHINA IN REVOLUTION
    MARK SELDEN
    Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revo...

    $1,099.00

  • CENSORING HISTORY
    LAURA E. HEIN / MARK SELDEN
    Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in hist...

    $1,039.00

  • THE TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM IN CHINA (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MARK SELDEN
    First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data on the Chinese economy and society in twenty years both necessitated and made possible a thorough reconsideration of the full range of issues pertaining to the political and economic trajectory of t...

    $659.00

  • THE ATOMIC BOMB: VOICES FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
    KYOKO IRIYE SELDEN / MARK SELDEN
    This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...

    $1,179.00

  • LIVING WITH THE BOMB: AMERICAN AND JAPANESE CULTURAL CONFLICTS IN THE NUCLEAR AGE
    LAURA E. HEIN / MARK SELDEN
    The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples. ...

    $1,179.00

  • JAPAN'S WARTIME MEDICAL ATROCITIES
    NIE, JING BAO / GUO, NANYAN / SELDEN, MARK / KLEINMAN, ARTHUR
    Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical fac...

    $1,399.00

  • CHINESE SOCIETY
    PERRY, ELIZABETH J. / SELDEN, MARK
    This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues. Topics covered include: labour and enviro...

    $1,279.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE DEVELOPMENT
    MARK SELDEN
    The first edition of "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" reconceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic and social crises that engulfed China - and indeed much of the rest of the socialist world ...

    $739.00