Timothy Cheek
- Affiliation: University of British Columbia
TIMOTHY CHEEK holds the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the role of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century and the history of the Chinese Communist Party.
Books by Timothy Cheek
Living With Reform
China Since 1989
Timothy Cheek
China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lifeways not only of China’s leaders but China’s working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex responses to the consequences of reform in China today. It shows the domestic concerns and… (more information)