Mark Selden: 7 books
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
China in Revolution: Yenan Way Revisited
Yenan Way Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.
by Edward Friedman, Professor Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor Mark Selden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to...
Our Land Was A Forest
An Ainu Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down...
by Mark Selden
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The first edition of "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" reconceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic...
Censoring History: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in...
Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.