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Turbulent Decade
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Author : Jiaqi Yan
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Turbulent Decade written by Jiaqi Yan and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with History categories.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution occurred in the second decade after Mao Zedong and his comrades came to power in 1949. A comprehensive narrative account of this colossal event, written by Yan Jiaqi, one of the principal leaders of China's pro-democracy movement, and his wife, Gao Gao, a noted sociologist, appeared in Hong Kong in 1986 and was quickly banned by the Communist government. Not surprisingly, censorship and restricted circulation in China resulted in underground reproduction and serialization. The work was thus widely read, coveted, and appreciated by a populace who had just freed itself from the cultural drought and political dread of the event. Yan and Gao later spent two years revising and expanding their work. The present volume, Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution, is based on the revised edition and has been masterfully edited and translated by D. W. Y. Kwok in consultation with the authors. Following Professor Kwok's eloquent introduction and a short foreword in which the authors analyze the basic causes of the Cultural Revolution, Part One of the narrative focuses on the years 1965-1967. In two short years, Mao managed to turn public opinion against Liu Shaoqi, president of the Republic, and launch the Cultural Revolution. The reader is introduced to the Red Guards and encounters the cult of personality, the first resistance to the Cultural Revolution, the attack on Zhou Enlai, and the persecution and death of Liu Shaoqi. Part Two examines the rise and fall of Lin Biao during the years 1959-1971. Lin's bid for power, which began with the consolidation of his personal clique in the army and mass-level persecution in the late stages of theCultural Revolution, ended in a failed coup and his death in an air crash. Part Three follows Jiang Qing from 1966 to her arrest in 1976 for her part in instigating mass violence and the persecution of key figures, including Zhou Enlai. During this period, the political fortunes of Deng Xiaoping rose and fell for a second time, the first protest at Tiananmen Square in 1976 ended in a bloody suppression, and that same year the Gang of Four were arrested. Unlike social scientific treatments of political phenomena, Turbulent Decade includes little discussion of economics, still less of international relations, and no institutional analysis. Instead, the authors' fervent belief in the truthful telling of history through its leading personalities pervades the work.
The Turbulent Decade
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Author : Sadako N. Ogata
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2005
The Turbulent Decade written by Sadako N. Ogata and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Ogata recounts her experiences and the lessons she learned as U.N. high commissioner for refugees during the 1990s. A tireless advocate for the victims of war, Ogata tells the on-the-ground story of four crises in which she directed relief: Iraq, the Balkans, the African Great Lakes region, and Afghanistan.
Turbulent Decade
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Author : Jiggi Yan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 199?
Turbulent Decade written by Jiggi Yan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 199? with categories.
Interesting Times
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Author : George Packer
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Interesting Times written by George Packer and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Political Science categories.
The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative pieces such as "Betrayed," about Iraqi interpreters, with personal essays and detailed narratives of travels through war zones and failed states. Spanning a decade that includes the September 11, 2001 attacks and the election of Barack Obama, Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror, Iraq, political writers, and the 2008 election. Across these varied subjects a few key themes recur: the temptations and dangers of idealism; the moral complexities of war and politics; the American capacity for self-blinding and self-renewal. Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the ambivalent response in Appalachia to Obama, these essays hold a mirror up to our own troubled times and showcase Packer's unmistakable perspective, which is at once both wide-angled and humane.
A Turbulent Decade Remembered
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Author : Diana Sorensen
language : en
Publisher: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release Date : 2007
A Turbulent Decade Remembered written by Diana Sorensen and has been published by Cultural Memory in the Present this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic--change.
Reports From A Turbulent Decade
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Author : The Lowy Institute
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Reports From A Turbulent Decade written by The Lowy Institute and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Political Science categories.
Throughout a decade of remarkable change and upheaval, the Lowy Institute has discussed, dissected and analysed the big issues shaping global politics, and provided fresh policy ideas for Australian decision-makers. Ranked as Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute provides high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on the trends affecting Australia and the world. This anthology features some of the best and most insightful papers, speeches and op-eds from the Lowy Institute's first decade. Included here are works by Lowy Institute researchers, Australian prime ministers and leading international scholars on diverse topics – from America's 'Seinfeld' strategy in Iraq, to building trust with China and Australia's place in the world. These are some of Australia's finest thinkers analysing the key issues that have had a major impact on Australia over the last turbulent decade, collated by our most influential think tank.
Crisis Reform And The Way Forward In Greece
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Author : Calliope Spanou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Crisis Reform And The Way Forward In Greece written by Calliope Spanou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Political Science categories.
This volume discusses different aspects of Greece’s political economy during the past decade and reflects on the country’s path ahead, examining the major question: did this challenging period succeed in providing a window of opportunity for deeper institutional and societal change? The authors seek to contribute to the discussion of the dynamics of stability and change, of the nexus between external pressure and domestic agency. Greece offers a most interesting case study, as much in analytical as in empirical terms. Never before did a euro area member require three macroeconomic adjustment programmes under stringent policy conditionality and external supervision. This experience shattered past certainties and reshaped the political landscape. A decade later Greece was starting to recover and received international recognition for its reform efforts. However, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an external shock that risks derailing such achievements. The volume includes chapters by academics and researchers from different professional backgrounds: history, economics, public law, political science, public administration and political economy. Their diverse experience and viewpoints contribute to multidimensional analyses in subject areas such as Greece’s constitutional structure, public sector reforms, labour market developments, China’s expanding investment footprint and product market reforms.
Common Ground
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Author : J. Anthony Lukas
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-09-12
Common Ground written by J. Anthony Lukas and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-12 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
The Tempest
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Author : Tunji Ọtẹgbẹyẹ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Tempest written by Tunji Ọtẹgbẹyẹ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Nigeria categories.
Crisis Reform And The Way Forward In Greece
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Author : Calliope Spanou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Crisis Reform And The Way Forward In Greece written by Calliope Spanou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.