Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

Asian Studies
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Now in Paperback!
Chinese Democracy after
Tiananmen
Yijiang Ding
A multi-dimensional picture of China at the political
crossroads, this book looks at the significant change
in state-society relationship in contemporary China in
three interrelated areas: intellectual, social, and cultural.
Ding’s questions – is China moving toward
liberal democracy? Does Western engagement with
China contribute economically and politically to this
shift? – are especially timely, given the recent reconstruction
of political regimes world-wide.
Yijiang Ding is Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Okanagan University College.
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE STUDIES SERIES
January (cloth 2001)
182 pages, 6 x 9”
ISSN 1206-9523
ISBN 0-7748-0838-1
hardcover, $75.00
ISBN 0-7748-0839-X
paper, $24.95
Paper edition available in the US from Columbia
University Press
Scars of War
The Impact of Warfare on Modern
China
Edited by Diana Lary and Stephen
MacKinnon
Scars of War looks at the long-term impact of warfare
on modern China, particularly the social and
psychological effects on the civilian population.
Following a powerful introduction by the editors, the
essays examine in detail the wartime ravages in
Xuzhou, collaboration during the Japanese occupation
in Jiading, and the plight of refugees in Wuhan.
A forceful book … These essays make concrete the
abstractly evoked “patriotic” sacrifice of millions of
Chinese people, offering tough history as an antidote
to the easy oblivion of official memory and underscoring
the deep human and social scars of war.
– Carol Gluck, George Samson Professor of History,
Columbia University
Diana Lary is Professor of History, University of British
Columbia. Stephen McKinnon is Professsor of History,
Arizona State University
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE STUDIES SERIES
January (cloth 2001)
222 pages, 6 x 9”
ISSN 1206-9523
ISBN 0-7748-0840-3
hardcover, $75.00
ISBN 0-7748-0841-1
paper, $29.95
Chinese Ambassadors
The Rise of Diplomatic
Professionalism since 1949
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu brings twelve years of personal experience
in the Chinese foreign service to this pathbreaking
study. Drawing on her own direct observations,
interviews, and newly available Chinese
sources, she examines four generations of Chinese
ambassadors who served from 1949 to 1994. She
charts the evolution of the Chinese diplomatic corps
from its early military orientation to the emergence
of career professionals and assesses the impact of
various ambassadors on Chinese foreign policy.
Xiaohong Liu worked on Western European affairs in the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1977 to 1989.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
April (cloth 2001)
282 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISBN 0-295-98087-7
paper, $41.95 CRO
OTHER NEW BOOKS YOU’LL WANT
Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise
of the Taliban
Larry P. Goodson
See page 5 for complete listing
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