Explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China's first World's Fair, the 2010 Expo. This book is suitable for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies.
The massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 raised issues about the nature of revolution and protest in China and the attitude of China's leaders to calls for reform. This book explores the 1989 student movement in a broad historical and cultural context.
This volume examines the paradoxical yet fundamental relationship between revolutions and the discourse of human rights as it has developed over the last four centuries.