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The age of openness : China before Mao
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ISBN: 988220659X 1283016796 9786613016799 988220564X 9789882205642 9789622099203 9622099203 9781283016797 6613016799 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,

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The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness.Frank Dikotter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and out of the count

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China --- History


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Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962
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ISBN: 1408814447 Year: 2010 Publisher: London, [England] : Bloomsbury,

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This title provides an unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Leap Forward that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.

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Famines --- Food supply --- China --- Economic policy

Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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ISBN: 0801446309 9780801446306 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell university press,

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Prisons --- Prisons --- Prisons

Narcotic culture : a history of drugs in China
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ISBN: 1850657254 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Hurst and Company,

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