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Tombstone(Reprint)
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng, Professor Edward Friedman, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo, Roderick Macfarquhar
Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2013 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53399-1, ISBN: 0-374-53399-7

"The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to off ..."

Tombstone(1st Edition)
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng, Roderick Macfarquhar, Edward Friedman, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo
Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27793-2, ISBN: 0-374-27793-1

"The much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the “three years of natural disaster.” As a journalist with privileged access to o ..."

Perspectives on Modern China
Four Anniversaries: Four Anniversaries
by Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Roderick Macfarquhar, Frederic Wakeman
448 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-28875-8, ISBN: 1-315-28875-3

"Zhang Weihan, "Dai Li yu 'Juntong ju' " (Dai Li and the Military Statistics Bureau), Zhejiang wenshi ziliao xuanji 23 (1982): 86. 83. ... Huang Yong, "Huangpu xuesheng de zhengzhi zuzhi ji qi yanbian" (Whampoa students' political organizations and their evolution), Wenshi ziliao xuanji 11 (1960): 10; Zeng Kuoqing, "He Mei xieding qian Fuxingshe zai Huabei de huodong" (The activities of the Fuxingshe in North China before the He Mei ..."

Mao's Road to Power
Revolutionary Writings:
by Stuart Schram, Timothy Cheek, Roderick Macfarquhar
1,072 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-51589-0, ISBN: 1-317-51589-7

"Editor. Stuart R. Schram was born in Excelsior, Minnesota, in 1924. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in physics, he took his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University. From 1954 to 1967, he conducted research at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and from 1968 until 1989 he was Professor of Politics with reference to China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of L ..."

"Our source for this document is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 235¥36, where it is reproduced from the manuscript. 1. Xie Juezai was at this time deputy chair of the Provincial Assembly of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. 2. Referring to the two books Mingji bei lüe and Mingji nan lüe compiled by Ji Liuqi ( 1622¥1687?) in the early Qing dynasty. The former records events during the late Ming dynasty, 1595¥1644, and the latter ..."

The Politics of China
Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China
by Roderick Macfarquhar
675 Pages, Published 2011 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-49822-7, ISBN: 1-139-49822-3

"ROAD. TO. TIANANMEN: CHINESE. POLITICS. IN. THE. 1980S. richard. baum. introduction By the time the Twelfth Party ... But acknowledging past mistakes was one thing; charting a viable course for the future was quite another. ... in principle, on the need for economic reform and opening up to the outside world, they differed over just how far and how fast to ... arcane academic debates over such issues as the special characteristics ..."

Prisoner of the State(Unabridged)
The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang (CD-Audio)
by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius, Norman Dietz, Roderick Macfarquhar
Cd, Published 2009 by Tantor Media, Inc
Hörbuch, Mp3-Audio, Sacd, Ungekürzte Ausgabe
ISBN-13: 978-1-4001-6336-6, ISBN: 1-4001-6336-6

"How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give listeners a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for his efforts ..."

Prisoner of the State
by Premier Zhao Ziyang, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius, Roderick Macfarquhar
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-84737-697-8, ISBN: 1-84737-697-5

"How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? "Prisoner of the State" is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the inner workings of China. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for his efforts. When China's army ..."

Mao’s Last Revolution
by Roderick Macfarquhar, Michael Schoenhals
764 Pages, Published 2008 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-25609-5, ISBN: 0-674-25609-3

"In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Mao’s Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in the history of China."

Art and China's Revolution(1st Edition)
(Asia Society)
by Melissa Chiu, Zheng Shengtian, Roderick Macfarquhar, Ralph Croizier
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14064-4, ISBN: 0-300-14064-9

"A groundbreaking look at art made in China during the Cultural Revolution Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership, and argues that important contributions were made d ..."

Mao's Last Revolution
by Roderick Macfarquhar, Michael Schoenhals
Paperback, 752 Pages, Published 2008 by Belknap Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02748-0, ISBN: 0-674-02748-5

" The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousa ..."

Mao's Last Revolution(1st Edition)
by Roderick Macfarquhar, Michael Schoenhals
Hardcover, 693 Pages, Published 2006 by Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02332-1, ISBN: 0-674-02332-3

"The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People''s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousan ..."

The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals
by Roderick Macfarquhar
324 Pages, Published 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7581-6280-9, ISBN: 0-7581-6280-4

Kaleidoscope Ser.
MySQL and JSP Web Applications : Data-Driven Programming Using Tomcat and MySQL
by James Turner, Roderick Macfarquhar
Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2002 by Sams
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32309-6, ISBN: 0-672-32309-5

"JSP developers encounter unique problems when building web applications that require intense database connectivity. MySQL and JSP Web Applications addresses the challenges of building data-driven applications based on the JavaServer Pages development model. MySQL and JSP Web Applications begins with an overview of the core technologies required for JSP database development--JavaServer Pages, JDBC, and the database schema. The book then ..."

The Politics of China
Sixty Years of the People's Republic of China
by Roderick Macfarquhar
Printed Access Code
ISBN-13: 978-0-511-84240-5, ISBN: 0-511-84240-6

Mao's Road to Power(1st Edition)
Revolutionary Writings: Volume X
by Stuart R. Schram, Timothy Cheek, Roderick Macfarquhar
Hardcover, 1,000 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-85662-2, ISBN: 1-138-85662-2

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3
by Roderick Macfarquhar
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1999 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-11083-9, ISBN: 0-231-11083-9

"This is the final volume in a trilogy that examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. It seeks to answer the central question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution (1966--76), which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its Communist Party? The Coming of the Cataclysm starts with the great famine of the early 1960s, wh ..."

9(1st Edition)
Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings: Volume IX
by Stuart R. Schram, Timothy Cheek, Roderick Macfarquhar
Hardcover, 1,000 Pages, Published 2016 by Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-85656-1, ISBN: 1-138-85656-8

"It was during the period from 1942 to 1945, the subject of this eighth volume in the 10-volume translation of Mao Zedong's writings through 1949, that Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism. At the same time, with the tide of war turning against the Axis powers, both Mao and Chiang Kaishek maneuvered for advantage in asserting control over postwar China. M ..."

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3
by Roderick Macfarquhar
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1997 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-11082-2, ISBN: 0-231-11082-0

"This is the final volume in a now-classic trilogy that seeks an answer to this question as it examines the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid 1960s. The Coming of the Cataclysm explores the important events leading up to the Cultural Revolution, and details the ways in which Mao continually tested the Chinese Communist Party."

Mao's Road to Power(1st Edition)
Revolutionary Writings: Volume VIII (Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949)
by Timothy Cheek, Roderick Macfarquhar, Stuart Schram, Stuart Reynolds Schram
Hardcover, 1,072 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-4335-3, ISBN: 0-7656-4335-9

"This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism."