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Title

People's China : a brief history / Craig Dietrich.

Author

Dietrich, Craig.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

"Now completely revised and updated, this balanced and lively history of the Peoples Republic of China offers a narrative and interpretive appraisal of this great nation since its post-World War II beginnings. Opening with the sweeping changes that occurred when Mao Zedong and the Communists defeated Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and took over a China which was still reeling from World War II, this text introduces the unique characters and events which have shaped recent Chinese history. It also illuminates such epic events as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao reforms. This new edition takes into account China's increasing economic liberalization along with its continuing authoritarianism. Including important new materials as well as a thoroughly rewritten final chapter, the third edition of People's China is completely up-to-date, chronologically unpacking the essential story of modern China -- the historical background, the ideologies, the grand economic achievements, and the cruel repression, making it an ideal text for courses in history and political science."--Publisher description.

Subject

• Since 1949
• 1900-2000
• 15.75 history of Asia
• China > History > 1949-
• China
• China
• CHINA (HISTÓRIA;SÉCULO 20)
• China > History
• Chine > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-373) and index.

Contents

A Note on the Romanization of Chinese Words -- Introduction (starting p. 3) -- 1 Old China and Young Revolutionaries (starting p. 10) -- Village China and Young Mao (starting p. 10) -- To the City (starting p. 17) -- Unification, Invasion, and Civil War (starting p. 22) -- Personalities and Causes (starting p. 32) -- Was China Ripe for Revolution? (starting p. 43) -- 2 Revolutionaries Seize Power: 1949-52 (starting p. 50) -- Establishing Sovereignty (starting p. 51) -- Installing the New Order (starting p. 55) -- The Korean War (starting p. 65) -- Campaigns (starting p. 68) -- Disappointments, Ironies, and Contradictions (starting p. 79) -- 3 Socialist Transformation: 1953-57 (starting p. 83) -- The First Five-Year Plan (starting p. 85) -- The High Tide of 1955 (starting p. 91) -- The Eighth Party Congress, September 1956 (starting p. 102) -- The Hundred Flowers Campaign (starting p. 105) -- 4 The Great Leap Forward: 1958-60 (starting p. 110) -- Initial States of the Great Leap (starting p. 111) -- The Great Leap in the Ascendant (starting p. 120) -- The Great Leap in Decline (starting p. 132) -- 5 Depression, Recovery, and Struggle at the Top: 1960-65 (starting p. 142) -- The Immediate Repercussions of the Great Leap (starting p. 143) -- Political Crisis (starting p. 150) -- 6 The Cultural Revolution: 1966-69 (starting p. 178) -- Participants (starting p. 178) -- Tidal Wave (starting p. 181) -- The Flood Recedes (starting p. 194) -- 7 The Cultural Revolution in Retreat: 1969-76 (starting p. 205) -- Failure to Consolidate Radical Rule: 1969-71 (starting p. 206) -- The Uneasy Regime of the Moderates: 1972-75 (starting p. 216) -- Mao's Final Months and the Arrest of the Gang of Four: 1976 (starting p. 229) -- An End and a Beginning (starting p. 235) -- 8 Crossing the River, Groping for the Stones: Reform in the 1980s (starting p. 236) -- Power Struggle (starting p. 236) -- Socialist Economics with Chinese Characteristics (starting p. 241) -- Political Dilemmas (starting p. 250) -- Foreign Policy (starting p. 262) -- Chinese Society Under Reform (starting p. 269) -- Political Tensions (starting p. 272) -- 9 "We Must Not Let the Next Generation Pour a Bucket of Excrement on Our Heads": The Tragedy at Tiananmen (starting p. 279) -- Seven Extraordinary Weeks (starting p. 280) -- 10 The Nineties: Two Faces of China (starting p. 296) -- Regaining Control (starting p. 296) -- The Stern Face of Authority (starting p. 303) -- Xiaokang: The Happy Face of "Modest Prosperity" (starting p. 311) -- New World, New Possibilities (starting p. 317) -- Chinese Society and Culture: Trends and Problems (starting p. 327) -- Notes (starting p. 335) -- Suggested Readings (starting p. 349) -- Index (starting p. 374).

ISBN

• 0195106288
• 9780195106282
• 0195106296
• 9780195106299

LCCN

97018948

OCLC

• ocm36842422
• 36842422
• SCSB-14437080

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library