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> H-ASIA
> May 11, 2011
>
> Member's publication, _Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China:
> Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner_, Edited by Catherine Lynch, Robert B.
> Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz
> *************************************************************************
> From: Catherine Lynch <cnmilynch@hotmail.com>
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of our book:
>
> _Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of
> Maurice Meisner_
> Edited by Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz
> Lexington Books, March 2011
> ISBN 978-0-7391-6572-0 (cloth); ISBN -0-7391-6574-4 (electronic)
>
> This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its
> reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently
> conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early
> twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is
> China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to
> be forgotten, or can it serve as a resource for creating a more fully
> human and radically democratic China with implications for all of us?
> Ranging from the early years of China's revolutionary twentieth-century
> to the present, the essays collected here look at the past and present of
> China with a view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and
> people who have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds
> and toward assessing the conceptual, political, and social limitations of
> these visions and their implementations.
>
> The volume's chapters focus on these issues from a range of vantage
> points, representing a spectrum of current scholarship. The first half
> of the book brings new insights to understanding how early
> twentieth-century intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to
> break with China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It
> treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong, and
> Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the Dalai
> Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of peasants,
> utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's second half looks
> broadly at the consequences of the implementations of radical ideas, at
> the same time critiquing our accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up
> to the present, the book investigates the effects of the reforms since
> the 1980s on long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of
> a capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into contemporary
> rural China through independent films. The book concludes with an
> analysis of the unshakable persistence of the shibboleth, "the rise of
> China," in popular and academic imagination and argues for the importance
> instead of taking seriously the twentieth-century history of radicalism
> in China and its significance for understanding China's present and its
> future potentials.
>
> Table of Contents:
>
> Acknowledgements
>
> Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical Context
> ..... Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz
>
> 1 . Individualism and Nationalism in the Thought of Chen Duxiu, 1904-1918
> ..... Sooyoung Kim
>
> 2 . Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao
> Zedong and Liang Shuming
> ..... Catherine Lynch
>
> 3 . Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950s
> ..... Tina Mai Chen
>
> 4 . Mao and Tibet
> ..... Lee Feigon
>
> 5 . Chinese Communists and the Environment
> ..... Robert B. Marks
>
> 6 . Post-Socialist Capitalism in Rural China
> ..... Thomas D. Lutze
>
> 7 . Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural
> China
> ..... Paul G. Pickowicz
>
> 8 . The "Rise of China"?
> ..... Bruce Cumings
>
> Index
>
> About the Contributors
>
>
> Best,
>
> Catherine Lynch, Emeritus
> History Department
> Eastern Connecticut State University
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