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  • What Is In A Rim?

    Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Postmodernity's Histories

    The Past as Legacy and Project

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to the practice of historical research. Moving beyond mere critique, he synthesizes traditional historical methods with new approaches that ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Marxism in the Chinese Revolution

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Delimiting Modernities

    Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses

    by Sven Trakulhun, Ralph Weber, Pheng Cheah, Gudrun Krämer, Anthony Reid, Volker H. Schmidt, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Arif Dirlik, Wolfgang Knöbl0, Tamara Loos1, Andrea Riemenschnitter2 ...
    This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Global Modernity

    Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    "A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

    by Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside, Roxann Prazniak ...
    This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing.Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the socalled &quote;reform and opening&quote; ... Read more

    $57.49 USD

  • Schools into Fields and Factories

    Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927–1932

    by Ming K. Chan, Arif Dirlik ...
    In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education. Under the slogan “Turn schools into fields and factories, fields and factories into schools,” the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Marxism and the Chinese Experience

    Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

    by Arif Dirlik, Maurice Meisner ...
    These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism. The themes have been selected for conceptual coherence within a socialist problematic of social change. Representing anthropology, art history, economics, history, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Aura

    Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the remapping of global relations, such remapping must be informed both by a grasp of contemporary structures of economic, political, and cultural power and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China

    The Perspective of Global Modernity

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing.Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called “reform and opening” (gaige kaifang) ... Read more

    $36.84 USD