Authors:Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: china, modern, history, intellectual
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2002-02
List price: $42.99
ISBN-10: 0521797101
ISBN-13: 9780521797108

An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book on modern China’s intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.While existing studies tend to focus on individual Chinese thinkers, this book includes all the major Chinese thinkers, as well as political figures who have influenced China’s modern history. Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-fan Lee introduce this this collection of essays, drawn from the later volumes (Volumes 12, 13, 14, 15) of The Cambridge History of China. The chapters, authored by eminent historians and social scien

Author: Merle Goldman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: east, asian, series, harvard, era, chinese, literature, fourth, modern
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0674579119
ISBN-13: 9780674579118

One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China’s Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.

Authors:Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: contemporary, china, series, harvard, reforms, chinaã¢â‚¬â„¢s, post, mao, paradox
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $35.50
ISBN-10: 0674654544
ISBN-13: 9780674654549

China’s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China’s unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China’s population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J.

Authors:Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle Goldman,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, contemporary, series, harvard, political, grassroots, reform
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-03-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0674024869
ISBN-13: 9780674024861

Observers often note the glaring contrast between China’s stunning economic progress and stalled political reforms. Although sustained growth in GNP has not brought democratization at the national level, this does not mean that the Chinese political system has remained unchanged. At the grassroots level, a number of important reforms have been implemented in the last two decades. This volume, written by scholars who have undertaken substantial fieldwork in China, explores a range of grassroots efforts--initiated by the state and society alike--intended to restrain arbitrary and cor

Authors:Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: contemporary, china, series, harvard, reforms, chinaã¢â‚¬â„¢s, post, mao, paradox
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $77.00
ISBN-10: 0674654536
ISBN-13: 9780674654532

China’s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s-the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world-ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China’s unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China’s population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O’

Authors:John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: enlarged, second, history, new, china
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0674018281
ISBN-13: 9780674018280

John King Fairbank was the West’s doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

Authors:John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: enlarged, history, new, china
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 1998-05
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674116739
ISBN-13: 9780674116733

Recognized for decades as the West’s doyen on China, John King Fairbank here offers the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. Fairbank’s masterwork is without parallel as a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative account of China and its people. 83 halftones, line drawings and maps.