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...Haiyan Lee Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949–1966) . By Krista Van Fleit Hang . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . xi, 208 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Since the inception...

... of Images of the Maoist Transformation of China . Richard H. Solomon with the collaboration of Talbott W. Huey. New York : Anchor Press , 1975 . 208 pp. Photographs, Chronology. $9.95. BOOK REVIEWS CENTRAL ASIA 145 Times. It is not surprising, therefore, that the book ends up more a superficial...

...Yelena Biberman Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India . By Shivaji Mukherjee . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 392 pp. ISBN: 9781108844994 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Colonial Institutions and Civil...

...Penelope B. Prime Economic Integration and Planning in Maoist China . By Thomas P. Lyons . New York : Columbia University Press , 1987 . xvi, 376 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 8 6 1 evidence is wholly...

...Xiaoping Fang The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980 . By Rene Krusche . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2022 . 260 pp. ISBN: 9781793654557 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Studies in the history of medicine and health in Mao's China after...

...Nicholas R. Lardy Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy . By John G. Gurley . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1976 . v, 325 pp. $15.00 532 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES wasteful form of social organization, Chu's posi...

...Lena Henningsen The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism . By Robert Culp . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . 371 pp. ISBN: 9780231184148 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Jennifer Altehenger Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China . By Laurence Coderre . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2021 . 246 pp. ISBN: 9781478014300 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Things matter. In the past several...

...Robert Cliver A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976 . By Felix Wemheuer . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 331 pp. ISBN: 9781107123700 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Felix Wemheuer's A Social...

... in the literature on the subcontinent to date, and to provide scholars working on Indian history and civilization with new insights into their respective fields. Amberst College SUSAN LEWANDOWSKI The Spring Thunder and After: A Survey of the Maoist and Ultra-Leftist Movements in India, 1962-75. BY ASISH KUMAR ROY...

...Michael Lindsay The Protracted Game: A wei-ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy . By Scott A. Boorman . New York : Oxford University Press , 1969 . xiv, 242 pp. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 926 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Ranbir Vohra Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 The Fading of the Maoist Vision: City and Countryside in China's Development . By Rhoads Murphey . New York : Methuen , 1980 . xiii, 169 pp. Maps, Plates, Table, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.95. BOOK REVIEWS...

...). There is nothing new in the proposition that the depiction of sex in the Cultural Revolution's literature and arts was very restrictive. But Roberts makes a very interesting further point in seeing the “desexualised female leader” as “not just a Maoist aberration” but with “its roots set much more deeply...

..., in all likelihood, a long and tumultuous way off. It is this future moment, communicated through a number of parallel techniques and methodologies, that stands as a central, if rarely stated, theme throughout The Maoist Insurgency. It is these ethnographic moments that readers must keep in mind...

... true strength comes through in the personal narratives that offer a compelling and human glimpse into the conflicting and all-consuming emotions that accompany war. In November 2006, the Maoists declared a formal end to the ten-year insurgency. And chapter 6 describes the slow process...

...Koji Hirata Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent . By Jason M. Kelly . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2021 . ix, 302 pp. ISBN: 9780674986497 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In this well-researched book, the author...

... parochial attitudes and organizational weaknesses that clashed with the later efforts of Mao and his allies to carry out mass mobilization and fundamental land reform. Only after a prolonged and violent crisis within the base areas did the “Maoist” policies vital for the revolution's long-term growth begin...

... a cybernetic uprising in the distant future, when a computer engineer breaks into the Mao mausoleum and “uploads” Mao's mind into cyberspace. Lastly, I draw on the satirical fictions of Yan Lianke 閻連科 and Chan Koonchung 陳冠中 to reveal the desacralizing impacts of neoliberal capitalism on the Maoist political...

... Chinese scholarship to write histories of their own,” Wakeman emphasized that Western historians were divided on the issue of whether the “Maoist depiction of Chinese history as perennial class struggle” was accurate. He summed up the controversy in these words: Was an immiserated peasantry ruthlessly...

... Rouge—a radical group of Maoist-inspired Communist rebels—came to power after a bloody civil war in which 600,000 people died, they transformed Cambodian society into what some survivors now call “the prison without walls” (kuk et chonhcheang) . The cities were evacuated; economic production...