Best Chinese Reading of 2013

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   National Management
  by Wu Jiaxiang
  Guangxi Normal University Press
  A book outlining comparative theory between Chinese and Western political civilizations, it traces Chinese institutional history of political evolution. Wu Jiaxiang illuminates the evolution of human political civilization from a macro perspective rather than from an insulated Chinese point of view. The author works as a freelance writer and researcher.
  “Concerns” Hardly Held Back: Intellectuals and Politics Around 1949
  by Yang Kuisong
  Guangxi Normal University Press
  With focus on the fluid destiny of intellectuals as New China was founded in 1949, Yang Kuisong recounts stories of three professors, Pan Guandan from Tsinghua University, Zhang Dongsun from Yenching University (Peking University today), and newspaperman Wang Yunsheng. He illustrates their respective dilemmas and painful embarrassments during the struggle against power, extremist characters, and a turbulent social environment. The author is a longtime professor of East China Normal University and a well-known Chinese historian specializing in history of relationship between China and foreign countries and contemporary Chinese history.
   Chen Yinke’s Last 20 Years: 1949-1969(Revised Edition)
  by Lu Jiandong
  SDX Joint Publishing Co. Ltd.
  Since this book’s first publication in 1996, Chen Yinke has been a favorite subject for Chinese readers due to the scholar’s passionate discussion of topics such as traditional Chinese culture, spirit of humanities, and the characteristics of a strong scholar. The author revised this edition with new statistics and research results. Chen was a scholar who specialized in the history of Chinese intellectuals from the late Ming (1368-1644) to early Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, and the development of modern Lingnan culture in southern China.
   China: Urban and Rural
  by Zhou Qiren,
  China CITIC Press
  An eminent economist and professor at the National Institute of Economic Research at Peking University, Zhou Qiren uses extensive field research to identify the causes and consequences of the wide divide between urban and rural China and propose strategies for the elimination of the phenomenon.
   Records of Explosion
  by Yan Lianke, Shanghai Litera
  ture and Art Publishing House
  A novel flavored with fantasy as well as realism, this book grotesquely exaggerates stories of a village’s transformation into metropolis across three decades. Critics have noted how it guides readers to review the nation’s last three decades of development. “It is a history of the national soul and spirit,” remarked one reviewer. Yan Lianke is a renowned contemporary writer.
   Memories of the Sacred Hall: History, Power, and Morality of Rural China
  by Jing Jun
  Fujian Education Press
  Dachuan Village in Gansu Province is heavily populated with households of the surname Kong, the same as the legendary Confucius, who believe themselves descendants of the sage. Prior to the founding of New China in 1949, plentiful Confucian temples could be found in the region, where 20,000 residents of 22 nearby villages went to worship. The author documents the history of Dachuan from the perspective of “social memories” and showcases how people rebuild social connections with memories along two lines: the setbacks the village experienced in temple and ancestral worship during Mao Zedong era, and the restoration of Confucian temples after China started reform and opening-up. Jing Jun is a professor of the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University after receiving a Ph.D in anthropology from Harvard University.
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