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21. | | | 22. | | Title: Blood road: the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary ChinaAuthor: Schoppa, R. Keith 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi - revolutionary, landlord, polit . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in governmentAuthor: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notion . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: The bridge betrayed: religion and genocide in BosniaAuthor: Sells, Michael Anthony Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Politics | European History | Islam | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | ChristianityPublisher's Description: The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminismAuthor: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphyAuthor: Kraus, Richard Curt Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | China | ArtPublisher's Description: Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship betw . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in MexicoAuthor: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the polit . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | | 31. | | Title: By popular demand: revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections Author: Gastil, John Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: PoliticsPublisher's Description: John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of representative democracy in the United States. Gastil argues that American citizens have difficulty developing clear policy interes . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: California progressivism revisitedAuthor: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century. These twelve original essays represent the best of the new scholarship on California Progressivism. Ranging across a spectrum that embraces ethnicity, gende . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: The call from Algeria: third worldism, revolution, and the turn to IslamAuthor: Malley, Robert 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam | Intellectual History | African StudiesPublisher's Description: The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers. Charting Algeria's political evolution from the turn of the century to the present, Robert Malley explores the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the current . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Changing the rules: the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania Author: Tripp, Aili Mari Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that even high-ranking state employees receive among the lowest incomes in the country? In this impressively researched and highly . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico borderAuthor: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Labor Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Politics | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiryAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacyAuthor: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | China | International RelationsPublisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | China | Popular Music | Ethnomusicology | Politics | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | |
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