Although much of the volume addresses the Maoist era, four chapters discuss the reform
period (Peter Vamos, Gilbert Rozman, Minglang Zhou, and Guan Guihai). Gorbachev seems …

The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a" new man"
has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the …

China's turbulent political history has created more than the usual gaps between birth
cohorts. Where people were in the life course when the Cultural Revolution hit has had a …

Will Hutton, in his book on China, The Writing on the Wall, writes,“To understand today's
China we need to understand how and why Imperial China succeeded and failed and how it …

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW OCTOBER 2009 man nature can be shaped by new
circumstances. He ends it with two strong and simple conclusions. First, despite the high …

For a variety of reasons, the core of world history as a field has focused largely on the
economic and political history of the world before 1900. The strength of Yinghong Cheng's …

This dissertation charts the path by which an idealized understanding of the Soviet Union
aided the transformation of Marxism from a counter-hegemonic to a hegemonic discourse …

This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as
China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the …

Standing at the rostrum over Tiananmen on 1st July 2021, clad in a jacket identical to the
one worn by Mao in the portrait displayed on the gate itself, Xi Jinping announced that “all of …