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China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to assess its impact fifty years on? Leading academics examine the long-lasting consequences of the political, social, economic and cultural upheaval unleashed by Mao Zedong.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to religion in contemporary China. Articles cover local community traditions, Daoism, Buddhism, Islam, gigong movements and protestant and Catholic Christianity as well as state policies toward religion. The authors are among the top scholars in the world on their topics.

China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002. This volume explains how, in order to maintain its position as a regional and world power, China's leaders are reconfiguring its huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms.

The 2004 volume examines the newly adopted Chinese government policy designed to aid the development of China's western regions. It considers the political and economic context of the campaign and then examines its potential impact in seven provincial level jurisdictions - Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guizhou.

The volume looks at the revolutionary People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective, using historical materials such as memoirs and archives. The volume contains essays on a variety of subjects and provides coverage across the entire revolutionary phase.

China has seen immense economic and social changes since the mid-1990s. This special issue of The China Quarterly examines the legal dimensions of these changes to assess how far the legal system has come and to identify what challenges still lie ahead.

This book attempts to analyse change in Taiwan during the whole of the twentieth century. In contrast to many works on Taiwan, it shows just how important the Japanese colonial antecedents were to the formation of today's Taiwan and outlines the complex problems this island will face in the future.

This book contributes to the ongoing assessment of China's involvement in Africa - a topic so new that it has largely been taken up by policymakers with knowledge of only China or only Africa. This book focuses on transnational capital flows & investment, migration, and the ongoing challenges of engagement in Africa.

Based on recent multidisciplinary research and insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering rural and urban centres, and different socio-economic groupings, the volume sheds light on changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices.

This volume considers the role of Latin America within China, as well as China's more obvious impact on Latin America. With its primary source material from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and China, this volume offers an early contribution to the emerging body of scholarship on China and Latin America.