United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2009. 37 illustrations, xiv + 266pp, index, as new hardback in dustjacket. The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China: The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and... More about China The Pessoptimist Nation

Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1990. xxiv + 401pp, index, covers a little faded, good copy in paperback This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and... More about Cries for Democracy Writings and Speeches from the Chinese Democracy Movement

Sydney. Wild Peony. 1993. Black and white illustrations, viii + 179pp, minor extremities wear, spine trifle sunned, lower corner damp stained, small quarto, a good copy in paperback. University of Sydney School of Asian Studies Series, No 1. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154758). More about Modernization of the Chinese Past

United States: Duke University Press, 2010. 290pp, list of Chinese characters, filmography, bibliography, index, as new paperback copy. "Backward Glances" reveals that the passionate love of one woman for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between... More about Backward Glances Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

New York. Columbia University Press. (c.1997). xiii + 313pp, index, notes, dustjacket, very good copy. "In 'China's Transition' the author, a leading authority on modern China, assesses the prospects for democracy at the close of the twentieth century. In sixteen far-reaching essays, Andrew J. Nathan delves into China's history, politics... More about China's Transition

Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1990. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 342pp, very good in dustjacket. In his groundbreaking memoir about China's democracy movement and the massacre at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, student leader Shen Tong offers us a rare look at a bold and daring new generation... More about Almost a Revolution

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. x + 262pp, index, inscription on half title, a very good paperback copy. The essays in this volume examine the discourses of Cultural China from a glocalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining its current discourses... More about Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age