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Gregor Benton is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University. His books include Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China and The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora (coedited with Hong Liu and Huimei Zhang).  Hong Liu is Tan Kah Kee Endowed Professor of Asian Studies and Chair of School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His publications include China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949–1965 and Singapore Chinese Society in Transition.




29 Ebooks by GREGOR BENTON

Hong Liu & Gregor Benton: Dear China
Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the …
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€37.99
Gregor Benton & Alan Hunter: Wild Lily, Prairie Fire
Gregor Benton and Alan Hunter provide here a source book of documents of democratic dissent under Chinese Communism, most of them previously untranslated and difficult to find in the West. Ranging fr …
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€47.99
Baruch Hirson & Arthur J. Knodel: Reporting the Chinese Revolution
Rayna and her husband Bill edited the Kuomintang’s English-language newspaper in Wuhan. Rayna’s account of her intimate involvement in the Chinese Revolution brings to life the eventful Wuhan years …
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€124.99
GREGOR BENTON & Hong Liu: Diasporic Chinese Ventures
This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang’s most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper …
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€125.06
GREGOR BENTON: Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied …
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€113.11
Chen Duxiu”s Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942
This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that …
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€39.99
Chen Duxiu”s Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942
This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that …
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€40.04
Gregor Benton & Lin (London School of Economics, UK) Chun: Was Mao Really a Monster?
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won powe …
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€58.76
Gregor Benton & Lin (London School of Economics, UK) Chun: Was Mao Really a Monster?
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won powe …
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€58.85
Gregor Benton: Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied w …
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€53.66
Gregor Benton: Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied w …
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€53.36
GREGOR BENTON & Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Liu: Diasporic Chinese Ventures
This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang”s most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper …
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€53.35
GREGOR BENTON & Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Liu: Diasporic Chinese Ventures
This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang”s most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper …
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€53.89
Gregor Benton & Edmund Gomez: Belonging to the Nation
This study reviews developments in the ethnic and national identity of the descendants of migrants, taking ethnic Chinese as a case study. Our core question is why, in spite of debates worldwide …
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€43.76
Gregor Benton & Edmund Gomez: Belonging to the Nation
This study reviews developments in the ethnic and national identity of the descendants of migrants, taking ethnic Chinese as a case study. Our core question is why, in spite of debates worldwide …
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€43.94
Gregor Benton & Frank N. Pieke: Chinese in Europe
The Chinese are among Europe’s oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic …
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€161.89
Gregor (University of Cardiff, UK) Benton & Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Liu: The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora
Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preser …
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€48.61
Gregor (University of Cardiff, UK) Benton & Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Liu: The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora
Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preser …
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€49.01
Hsiao-Hung Pai: Scattered Sand
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€25.00
Mei Zhi: F
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€33.87
Gregor Benton & Huimei Zhang: CHINESE MIGRANTS WRITE HOME
Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese migrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Qiaopi had numerous functions and dimensions, ranging …
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€43.99
Gregor Benton: Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942
This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese inde …
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€96.29
Hsiao-Hung Pai: Scattered Sand
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour …
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€21.99
Mei Zhi: F
Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But back in the Party’s early days, he was one of its …
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€29.99
Gregor Benton: Poets of the Chinese Revolution
This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China’s early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng …
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€32.99
Koldo Zuazo: Standard Basque and Its Dialects
The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined. The author, the foremost expert on Basque dialects, traces their emergence to medieval times, …
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€43.94
Koldo Zuazo: Standard Basque and Its Dialects
The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined. The author, the foremost expert on Basque dialects, traces their emergence to medieval times, …
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€43.75