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Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System Paradigm, 2007

Rethinking Nuclear Weapons

Could China be the next world hegemon? Will it collaborate with other nations to break the US grip on the rules of the global economy? John Gulick considers whether China has the resources and endowments to take over as world leader. Also, Ward Wilson argues in an essay that Japan's decision to surrender in 1945 was not compelled by the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Cushing & Tompkins, Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Chronicle Books, 2007

Ignacio, de la Cruz, Emmanuel & Toribio, The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons T'Boli, 2004

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Two historical moments of immense turbulence, the Philippine American War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, were times of distinctive artistic production, times when political cartoons and posters changed or buttressed popular attitudes. Jorge Emmanuel, Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins discuss the books they've produced about art, politics, and imperialism.

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Richard Walker and Daniel Buck, The Chinese Road: Cities in the Transition to Capitalism New Left Review

What if China were capitalist, in spite of official pronouncements to the contrary? Economic geographers Dick Walker and Daniel Buck talk about the massive transformation that has taken place in that country and how we can best understand it through the lens of Marxist political economy.