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This program, part two of the China New Empire series, picks off where the first episode left off: after the death of Mao Zedong. Though twice purged by Mao for ideological moderation and economic pragmatism, Deng Xiaoping eventually succeeded him as China's new 'Paramount Leader'. Deng's regime saw the emergence of China as the economic powerhouse we know today. As one historian comments: "During Mao's final years it was 'strong nation, poor population.'...
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"In this important book, noted China scholar Anne-Marie Brady answers some intriguing questions about China's contemporary propaganda system. Why have propaganda and thought work strengthened their hold in China in recent years? How has the CCP government strengthened its power since 1989 when so many analysis predicted otherwise? How does the CCP maintain its monopoly on political power while dismantling the socialist system? How can the government...
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Michael Wood has traveled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world's second largest economy. But how did it become so dominant?...
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The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck, is a historical fiction novel that was published on March 2, 1931. A year later it won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Good Earth sold well and resulted in Pearl S. Buck writing two more novels in the same trilogy, Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). The novel is about a Chinese family who lives in a village on the cusp of World War I. It tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family...
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