June 2019
Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981
David Zweig Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989 SYNOPSIS: During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move [...]
New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution
Edited by William A. Joseph, Christine P.W. Wong, and David Zweig Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991 SYNOPSIS: Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume [...]
China’s Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989
Ogden, Suzanne; Hartford, Kathleen; Sullivan, Lawrence; Zweig, David SYNOPSIS: Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass [...]
China’s Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s
Zweig, David Stephen; Chen, Changgui SYNOPSIS: This study presents data on the factors behind Chinese students' decisions about return. Based on analytical methods, it contains an interpretation about China's brain drain, examining why PRC [...]
Freeing China’s Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era
David Zweig. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c1997 SYNOPSIS: A comprehensive analysts of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, [...]
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages
David Zweig. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002 SYNOPSIS: China began opening to the outside world in 1978. This process was designed to remain under the state's control. But the relative value of goods [...]