Chongqing

Download or read book Echoes of Chongqing written by Danke Li and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. By presenting women's remembrances of the war, this study examines the interplay between oral history and traditional historical narrative, public discourse, and private memories. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways, some of them active in the communist resistance and others trying to support families or pursue educations in the face of wartime upheaval. Their stories demonstrate that the War of Resistance had two faces: one presented by official propaganda and characterized by an upbeat unified front against Japan, the other a record of invisible private stories and a sobering national experience of death and suffering. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war.

Download or read book Echoes of Chongqing written by Danke Li and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of ordinary women in China's War of Resistance against Japan

Download or read book Chongqing & The Three Gorges written by Kim Hunter Gordon and published by Kim Hunter Gordon. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign written by Xiao Mei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2009 and 2012, the city of Chongqing came into the national, and even international spotlight, as it became the geographical centre of the ‘Singing Red, Smashing Black’ campaign, and later the political storm that swept China. Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign drew an incredible amount of interest at the time, but speculation and prejudice has since blurred the public understanding of the sensational story that ties the campaign with the rise and fall of a political star, Bo Xilai. This book, therefore, seeks to study the nature of Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign, and the interaction between the political programme and the practices of its participants. Based on fieldwork conducted in Chongqing, it seeks to question whether the Red Culture Campaign was actually a return to Maoist revolutionary mass campaigning whilst examining the relationship between the CCP's political power and the lives of the ordinary people as reflected in the case of the campaign. Ultimately, it highlights that the campaign was not in fact a real Maoist mass movement. Although it followed the pre-existing model of past mass campaigns in China, containing a series of frequent and highly performative operations, Xiao Mei argues that it essentially demonstrated critical features of ‘simulation’. By contributing to our understanding of the discrepancies between a designed political programme, and what it actually becomes when implemented on the ground, this book will be of use to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Politics and Sociology.

Download or read book The Use of Mao and the Chongqing Model written by Joseph Y.S. CHENG and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAO Zedong was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China. He developed his own ideology and methodology known as Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought, and his thought has a great influence in China or even overseas. This book aims at bringing together a group of scholars to address the uses of Mao in China (PRC) today with special reference to the Bo Xilai case. It also provides insights and detail on how and what we know about modern China. Contributing authors, including a number of French scholars, illustrate how Maoism influences and engages in government, business sector or social life. This timely volume will be of considerable interest to scholars, journalists, and those keen to better understand the changing values in China today.

Download or read book Teaching In Chongqing written by Greg McEnnally and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, China is so important. We need to understand why this empire (it is not a country) acts as it does. What are its intentions? This book is not a political analysis, but simply a record of one westerner’s experiences teaching English in Chongqing. Nevertheless, being part of the daily life of ordinary people has given rise to valuable insights. Chongqing is a major city with some 17 million people: it is not a backwater and was China’s wartime capital. But it is important for another reason. The popular mayor when the author began his time there was Bo Xilai, a rival to Xi Jinping; his subsequent removal and imprisonment says a lot. The author’s daily experiences were fascinating, a real privilege to visit such interesting places and to meet so many wonderful people. These should be shared, which is what this book does.

Download or read book Chongqing in the Eyes of a Dane 丹麦人眼中的重庆 written by 米科尔·斯蒂格·拉森 Mikkel Stig Larsen and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《丹麦人眼中的重庆》通过大量照片介绍位于中国西南的重要城市重庆。丹麦作者米科尔·斯蒂格·拉森是一名青年摄影家，于2011年初次来到中国，随后于2013年起在重庆生活，成为一名教师。拉森旅居中国期间拍摄了大量照片记录他眼中的时代发展和普通城市人的生活。2022年，拉森决定通过写作本书，分享他在中国的亲身经历和他眼中的魅力重庆。