Mao: A biography

Biographies & Memoirs

TERRILL, ROSS

Leaders & Notable People

Harper&Row

Recounts how Mao rose from farm boy to leader of China, discusses his complex personality and political philosophy, and looks at the major events of his reign

Mao: A Biography

HarperCollins, Publishers

Historical

Harpercollins College Div

Mao: a Biography

Joanna Cotler Books

Economic historian, democratic socialist, educator, and British labor party activist, R. H. Tawney touched many worlds. His life, too, spanned great distance and change. When he was born in Calcutta in 1880, Gladstone, Tennyson, and Queen Victoria were flourishing and the British Empire was approaching its height. By the time of his death in 1962, the Empire had shrunk to a few tourist islands, and socialism, once so shocking, was now commonplace.Ross Terrill, in this absorbing first study of Tawney’s thought, view his subject within three related contexts. The first is Tawney, the man. Terrill makes skillful use of unpublished material―the early diary, speech and lecture notes, letters, interviews with friends and associates―to tell the story of Tawney’s life in relation to his times. Second is social democracy. Tawney was one of its most influential philosophers and prophets, and this book argues for the continuing validity of his socialism as a path between capitalism and communism. Third is British politics. From Edwardian liberal “consensus” to mid-century collectivist “consensus,” Tawney’s long career, often at odds with prefailing orthodoxies, offers a window on British political culture.Four key ideas are found in Tawney’s political thought: equality and the dispersion of power―the “shape of socialism”; function and citizenship―the “life of socialism.” These ideas, and indeed the life of the man himself, Terrill believes, are summed up in socialism as fellowship. “As long as men are men,” Tawney said, “a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.”This book is a blend of biography, history, and the study of political ideas. It provides a striking portrait of a remarkable man and a panorama of changing ideas and situations in the society where he tried to realize his socialist vision. It offers many glimpses of Tawney’s associates, among them Beveridge, the Webbs, Laski, A. P. Wadsworth, Temple, Margaret Cole, and Leonard Woolf; and suprising snippets, like the fact that Tawney used the phrase “private affluence and public squalor” in 1919.

R. H. Tawney and his times: Socialism as fellowship

Reference

London Deutsch

Flowers On an Iron Tree Five Cities Of

Little,Brown & Company

800,000,000: The Real China

Travel

Asia

Uses the examples of 5 cities to chronicle the changes which transformed China from its peasant past to its modernized present

Flowers On An Iron Tree

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Heinemann

Future of China After Mao

History

Bantam/Doubleday/Dell

<p>Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton administration claimed, a "strategic partner" of the U.S.?Ross Terrill addresses the question upon which all these others depend: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybrid of Chinese tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire? Since the collapse of three thousand years of Confucian monarchy in 1911, China has neither established a successful political system nor adjusted to being a nation state. Today it stands as the most contradictory of major powers, hovering between an unsustainable tradition and a yet-to-be-born political form that would support its new society and economy. Hanging in the balance are the prospect for freedom within China (for both Chinese and non-Chinese citizens of the People's Republic), the future of America's relations with China, and the security of China's neighbors.Drawing upon Terrill's long experience studying China as well as upon new research, this enlightening and rigorous book will be a must-read for everyone who has a stake in the future of the global world order.</p>

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