The detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The authors spent a decade interviewing villagers and rural officials, exploring archives, and investigating villagers with diverse resources and cultural, traditions, and they vividly describe both the promise and the human tragedy of China's rural revolution.

Exploring the decades before and after the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, they trace the growing economic...

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

This text addresses two related questions: what are the prospects for democracy in China?, and what are the prospects for US-China relations? The authors examine the concrete policies occupying the US Congress and media, and broader issues, such as the difference democracy makes for peace and war.

A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."-New York Times Book Review""

This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same path as Russia and Yugoslavia.

This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Communist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same dangerous path as Russia and Yugoslavia.