China in the 20th Century
10 Apr 2009 17:40
The post-Mao period is peculiar enough --- and interesting enough to me --- to rate its own notebook.
- Recommended:
- Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
- Joseph R. Levenson, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate
- Jonathan Spence
- Mao Zedong
- The Search for Modern China
- To read:
- Robert W. Barnett, Wandering Knights: China Legacies, Lived and Recalled
- Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World [Review by Danny Yee]
- Barry Naughton, The Chinese economy: Transitions and Growth [Blurb]
- Judith Shapiro, Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
- Vera Schwarcz, The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919
- Jonathan Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
- Eddy U, Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism ["these societies were not bureaucratic enough."]
