Social Contradiction

22 books

From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy cover
Rating 4.0
From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy 关晓红 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 This book is a monograph by Guan Xiaohong, professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, on the reform of the local bureaucracy in the late Qing. Th…
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Urban Renewal 秦虹 / 苏鑫 CITIC Press · 2018 As urbanization rates keep rising and cities continue to expand, "big city diseases" have come to the fore: dense populations, traffic congestion, env…
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The Grand Biography of Emperor Chongzhen Chao Zhongchen Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Grand Biography of Emperor Chongzhen is a biography of Emperor Chongzhen (Zhu Youjian) by Chao Zhongchen, a scholar of Ming and Qing history and p…
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Assassination 曲飞 Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2017 Assassination is a popular history book on world history that selects ten of the most legendary assassination and targeted-killing incidents in histor…
The Great Qin Empire: Annotated Edition, Part VI: Beacon Fire over the Empire cover
Rating 4.3
The Great Qin Empire: Annotated Edition, Part VI: Beacon Fire over the Empire Sun Haohui / 谢有顺 / 胡传吉 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014 Beacon Fire over the Empire is the sixth and final volume of Sun Haohui's long historical novel The Great Qin Empire. It opens with the sudden death o…
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Rating 3.6
A Judge's Diary 郭彦明 · 2025 This book is a selection of the author's real case notes from nearly three years of judicial practice, a true microcosm of the work and life of a gras…
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Rating 3.8
The Eve of the French Revolution Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson), 1845-1894 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Reforging the British Empire: From American Independence to the Second World War 詹姆斯·特拉斯洛·亚当斯 / 覃辉银 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 This book tells how Britain, after its defeat in the North American War of Independence and the collapse of the First Empire, rose again between 1784 …
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Online Public Opinion and Public Policy 万旋傲 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2019 China's reform and opening up brought rapid economic growth, but social tensions and problems also accumulated. Emergencies often serve as triggers or…
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Rating 4.1
Dinosaur Civilization Trilogy II: The Fossil Hunter 罗伯特·索耶 / 张建光 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2025 The Quintaglios have built a civilized society. They soon discover that their civilization did not originate on the doomed moon they inhabit. Where di…
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Shirley (V) Charlotte Brontë · 2024 Shirley is a novel by the 19th-century English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name Currer Bell. Set against the Napoleonic Wars in e…
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Rating 3.2
Research on Frontier Issues in Building a Law-Based Society in the New Era 姚苹 China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2024 Starting from the historical juncture of the new era, this book focuses on the goals and key tasks of building a law-based society, and explains such …
Fifty Years of the Western Jin: An Examination of Historical Phenomena from 266 to 317 cover
Rating 3.8
Fifty Years of the Western Jin: An Examination of Historical Phenomena from 266 to 317 季社建 · 2023 The turmoil at the end of the Han dynasty resulted from the fragmentation of social and political demands and the intensification of contradictions. T…
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Rating 3.0
Zexiang 朱奎杰 Qingdao Publishing House · 2022 Written in the style of a traditional chapter novel, this book tells the story of the vast lowlands stretching for a hundred li in the Jiaodong region…
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Rating 3.2
A Guide to the Regulations on Petition Work 中央信访工作联席会议办公室 / 国家信访局 China Legal Publishing House · 2022 To support the study, publicity, and implementation of the Regulation, enable all regions, departments, and sectors of society to understand it fully …
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Rating 3.4
A Theory of Holistic Development 邱耕田 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023 Guided by Marxist philosophy and approached from the perspective of the philosophy of development, this book addresses the theoretical and practical q…
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Rating 4.2
Chinese Politics of Urban-Rural Difference Xu Yong Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019 Starting from the historical evolution of urban-rural differences, this book offers a systematic comparative analysis of the conditions, characteristi…
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Rating 3.8
A Guided Reading of "The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party" 艾四林 China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2019 Published in the second series of our Marxism Classic Guided Reading Series, this Guide has drawn wide public attention since the release of the first…
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Rating 4.3
Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis Anthony Giddens / 郭忠华 / 徐法寅 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 Giddens's vast intellectual system mainly includes reflections on the works of classic thinkers such as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, the reconstruction …
Improving the Mediation Mechanism for Social Conflicts and Disputes: A Study of "Grand Mediation" in Contemporary China cover
Rating 3.9
Improving the Mediation Mechanism for Social Conflicts and Disputes: A Study of "Grand Mediation" in Contemporary China 胡洁人 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2017 Drawing on statistical data and real cases, this book focuses on describing and analyzing the typical models of China's "grand mediation" mechanism in…