Джулия Ловелл — новинки

The first global history of Maosim that explores Maos' life, ideas, influence and legacy as a power that shaped the world well beyond the borders of China.
'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China
Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic. With disagreements between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
A crucial motor of the Cold War: Maoism shaped the course of the Vietnam War and brought to power the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today.
Starting with the birth of Mao's revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding with its violent afterlives in South Asia and resurgence in the People's Republic today, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy.
'Wonderful' Andrew Marr, New Statesman

The first global history of Maosim that explores Maos’ life, ideas, influence and legacy as a power that shaped the world well beyond the borders of China.
For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
The power and appeal of Maoism have extended far beyond China. Maoism was a crucial motor of the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam War (and the international youth rebellions that conflict triggered) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed victory to, anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today – more than forty years after the death of Mao.
In this new history, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy. It is a story that takes us from the tea plantations of north India to the sierras of the Andes, from Paris’s fifth arrondissement to the fields of Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of Brixton.
Starting with the birth of Mao’s revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding with its violent afterlives in South Asia and resurgence in the People’s Republic today, this is a landmark history of global Maoism.

Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim.

Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’ Republic and the legitimacy of its communist government. As disagreements and conflicts between China and the West are likely to mount, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao will only become more urgent.

Yet during Mao’s lifetime and beyond, the power and appeal of Maoism has always extended beyond China. Across the globe, Maoism was a crucial motor of the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam War (and the international youth rebellion it triggered) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed victory to, anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today – more than forty years after the death of Mao.

In this new history, acclaimed historian Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism, analysing both China’s engagement with the movement and its legacy on a global canvas. It’s a story that takes us from the tea plantations of north India to the sierras of the Andes, from Paris’s 5th Arrondissement to the fields of Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of Brixton.

Starting from the movement’s birth in northwest China in the 1930s and unfolding right up to its present-day violent rebirth, this is the definitive history of global Maoism.

Эта уникальная серия создана в сотрудничестве с компанией "Дискавери", занимающейся распространением научно-популярных знаний по всему миру. Серия состоит из четырех больших разделов: "Наука и техника", "Биология", "История" и "Общество". В каждом разделе представлен широкий круг тем, полезных для интеллектуального развития и познания окружающего мира. Вас ждут увлекательное чтение, огромный объем разнообразной информации, возможность развить сообразительность и творческие способности!

In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism.

Когда-то Мао Цзэдун назвал китайский народ «чистым листом бумаги, на котором можно написать любые иероглифы». Таким же было и его отношение к городам Китая во время Культурной революции. Однако действия Мао кажутся пустяками в сравнении с политикой его последователей, отказавшихся от всяких ограничений, — сегодня Китай переживает урбанизацию в масштабах, которых не знала мировая история. В своем эссе известный синолог Джулия Ловелл анализирует китайскую политику в сфере архитектуры и городского строительства. Круг действующих лиц широк — это и западные архитектурные звезды, слетевшиеся в Китай, как мухи на сладкое, и политические…

Великая Китайская стена... Согласно легендам, она была построена 2200 лет назад. За нею веками скрывалась от европейцев Поднебесная Империя - таинственная, древняя страна высочайшей культуры и огромной мощи, считавшая себя единственным оплотом истинной цивилизации. Что же это - древний и средневековый Китай? Родина высокой литературы и живописи, прекрасной музыки и несравненных боевых искусств? Страна безжалостных тиранов, самую печальную славу среди которых снискал гениальный и чудовищно жестокий император Цинь Ши-хуанди? Почему периоды бурного расцвета Китая снова и снова перемежались периодами голода и бед, иноземных…

Великая Китайская стена...
Согласно легендам, она была построена 2200 лет назад.
За нею веками скрывалась от европейцев Поднебесная Империя - таинственная, древняя страна высочайшей культуры и огромной мощи, считавшая себя единственным оплотом истинной цивилизации.
Что же это - древний и средневековый Китай?
Родина высокой литературы и живописи, прекрасной музыки и несравненных боевых искусств?
Страна безжалостных тиранов, самую печальную славу среди которых снискал гениальный и чудовищно жестокий император Цинь Ши-хуанди?
Почему периоды бурного расцвета Китая снова и снова перемежались периодами голода и бед, иноземных нашествий, кровавых мятежей и гражданских войн?
Каковы уроки пестрой и неоднозначной истории Поднебесной?
И усвоил ли Китай эти уроки прошлого?

A new and important history of the epic story of the Great Wall of China that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium BC the present day. Over 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China has made an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China’s age-old sense of being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the “barbarians” at its borders. But behind the wall’s intimidating exterior — and the myths that have clustered around it — is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. It is this history that Julia Lovell explores in her enthralling book. The Great Wall is an epic tale that stretches over two millennia as it follows the rise and fall of the great Chinese ruling dynasties. Full of astonishing details and extraordinary characters — from emperors to engineers, statesmen to soldiers — this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China’s past, present, and future.