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Cambridge modern China seriesSummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIZhang, Lun
Summary: Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident--otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre--from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHAStarr, John Bryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill & Wang 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 STADikötter, Frank
Summary: "Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 DIKFewsmith, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.059 FEWChang, Gordon G.
Summary: A pessimistic view of China's political and economic future examines the corruption, decay, deflation, insolvency, and other problems that are threatening Chinese society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 CHAFang, Lizhi.
Summary: Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FANG, LIZHI FANZhao, Ziyang.
Summary: Gives readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and was dethroned for his efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHAO, ZIYANG ZHAFriedberg, Aaron L.
Summary: "The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327.5101 FRISummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD