People's Republic
Author | : Kurt Schlichter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780988402942 |
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Author | : Kurt Schlichter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780988402942 |
Author | : Leigh Phillips |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 178663516X |
Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.
Author | : Maurice S. Crandall |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469652676 |
Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.
Author | : Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ye Sang |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2006-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520938860 |
Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under—and often despite—the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms—reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.
Author | : Louisa Lim |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 0199347700 |
An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.
Author | : William A. Brown |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684171962 |
An annotated translation of the third volume of the detailed, comprehensive history of the Mongolian People’s Republic.
Author | : Zhiqun Zhu |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814313505 |
Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges today. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet an inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power.
Author | : Yuwu Song |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476602980 |
This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.
Author | : Harriet Evans |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780847695119 |
Provides an innovative reinterpretation of the cultural revolution through the medium of the poster -- a major component of popular print culture in China.