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1	Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist Offering a perspective on Chinese radicalism in the 20th century, this study argues that an understanding of the history of anarchism is indispensable when following crucial themes in modern Chinese politics. It explores anarchism in relation to the history of the socialist movement in China. see all copies from $19.95! new only from $24.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone global has empowered societies once condemned to ... see all copies from $42.54! new only from $42.54!
3	Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937 more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist In "Revolution and History, " Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist historiography by scholars who based their ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $32.34! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Asia/Pacific - PB more books like this by Rob Wilson (Editor), Rob Wilson (Editor), Arif Dirlik (Contributions by) add to wishlist The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little is available to readers outside the ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
5	Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project: The Past as Legacy and Project more books like this by Arit Dirlik, Arif Dirlik add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $16.99! new only from $35.04!
6	What is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.92! new only from $100.14! \| SVS
7	Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization more books like this by Roxann Prazniak (Editor), Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist This work provides a statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. The contributors argue that, in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, specific places around the world are sites for the defence and enhancement of daily life. This work ... see all copies from $17.99! new only from $37.14! \| SVS
8	Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $23.62! new only from $69.63!
9	What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as Asia Pacific and Pacific Rim. Revealing the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions that underlie the much-celebrated economic ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $59.94! \| SVS
10	Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist In his provocative new book, Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism - "global modernity". The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of ... see all copies from $36.92! new only from $36.92! \| SVS
11	Postmodernism and China-CL more books like this by Arif Dirlik, Xudong Zhang, Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist 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 modernisation. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodisation and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernisation as ... see all copies from $34.95! new only from $34.95!
12	Schools Into Fields - C more books like this by Ming K Chan, Ming K Chan, Arif Dirlik add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Postmodernism and China more books like this by Arif Dirlik, Xudong Zhang, Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist 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 modernisation. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodisation and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernisation as ... see all copies from $19.98! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
14 view cover	After the Revolution more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist Arif Dirlik examines fundamental premises and critiques of Marxist thinking in the context of emerging transnational economies and the collapse of socialist states. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $79.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	History After the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor), Vinay Bahl (Editor), Peter Gran (Editor) add to wishlist This ambitious volume provides a comparative perspective on the challenges facing the discipline of history as Eurocentrism fades as a lens for viewing the world. Exploring the state of history and the struggle over its ownership throughout the world, the authors address the issues of globalization, postmodernism, and postcolonialism that have ... see all copies from $20.74! new only from $35.10! \| SVS
16 view cover	Snapshots of Intellectual Life in Contemporary PR China more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor) add to wishlist "Snapshots of Intellectual Life in Contemporary PR China" discusses changes that have taken place in Chinese intellectual life over the past decade, the self-reflection that these changes have provoked among Chinese intellectuals, and the ways in which these changes have been received in the United States. Featuring essays by intellectuals from ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $16.62! \| SVS
17 view cover	Chinese on the American Frontier more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states - from the Cascades to the Great Plains - to provide a ... see all copies from $55.80! new only from $55.80!
18 view cover	The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $39.47! new only from $42.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Asia/Pacific - CL more books like this by Rob Wilson (Editor), Rob Wilson (Editor), Arif Dirlik (Contributions by) add to wishlist The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little is available to readers outside the ... see all copies from $15.43! new only from $29.95!
20 view cover	Marxism in the Chinese Revolution more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist Written by noted historian Arif Dirlik over a period of three decades, the essays in this collection offer a record both of developments in Chinese socialism (excluding anarchism) and of the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution throughout these years. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global ... see all copies from $84.50! new only from $110.62! \| SVS
21	After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist see all copies from $29.45! new only from $32.50!
22 view cover	Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project more books like this by Arif Dirlik add to wishlist 104.00 see all copies from $147.06! new only from $147.06!
23 view cover	History After the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor), Vinay Bahl (Editor), Peter Gran (Editor) add to wishlist History as a discipline faces a crisis of identity as Eurocentrism fades in a world where globalized visions compete to explain historical processes. Facing the challenge squarely, this volume - comprising specialists on Asia, Africa and Latin America - explores the state of historical analysis in various world regions and appraises current views ... see all copies from $93.50!
24 view cover	Chinese Postmodernism: Volume 24, No.3 more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor), Xudong Zhang (Editor) add to wishlist This special issue of BOUNDARY 2 maps out the terrain of post-modernism in Chinese intellectual and creative activity--specifically in the domains of literature, the arts, film, and architecture. Essays consider Chinese postmodernity in its relationship to new patterns of consumption and production as China moves into the global capitalist system. see all copies from $23.94!
25 view cover	B2 VL.21: 1 Asia/Pacific more books like this by Arif Dirlik (Editor), Rob Wilson (Editor) add to wishlist This book gives information on different parts of the world such as Asia. It is an international journal of literature and culture, covering the Asia / Pacific as Space of Cultural Production. see all copies from $28.00!

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