Kate Merkel Hess: 2 books
The Rural Modern
Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception...
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kate Merkel-Hess, Sorpong Peou
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now regarded as an iconic depiction...