China Since Mao

10 Apr 2009 17:40

Dissidence (esp. the role of scientists), arts and letters (esp. poetry), commercial and economic explosion, youth culture, popular culture...

Fang Lizhi, Bringing Down the Great Wall
H. Lyman Miller, Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge [Observe the heresy of making the title more informative than the subtitle]
Kalpana Misra, From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Offical Ideology in Deng's China
Jianying Zha, China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

Nimrod Baranovitch, China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997
Timothy Brook, Quelling the People
Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants
Ci Jiwei, Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism
Gloria Davies, Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry [Blurb]
James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai [Blurb]
Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson, "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 729--761
Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China [Blurb, ch. 1]
Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic
Peter Hays Gries, China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy [Blurb and introduction; favorable review in Dissent]
Doug Guthrie, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China
Hooper, Youth in China
Charlotte Ikels, The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China
Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt [blurb]
Yi-min Lin, Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China [Blurb]
Perry Link, Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament
Barry Naughton, The Chinese economy: Transitions and Growth [Blurb]
Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China [Blurb]
Minxin Pei, China's TRapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy [Blurb]
Chaohua Wang (ed.), One China, Many Paths [2005 essay collection]
Wang Hui, China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition [Blurb]
Andrew Wederman, From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China
Hongda "Harry" Wu, Laogai: The Chinese Gulag
Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space [Blurb]
Li Zhang, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population