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The People's Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment

Title
The People's Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby.
Author
People's Republic of China at 60: an International Assessment (2009 : Harvard University)
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
Kirby, William C.
Description
418 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Alternative Title
People's Republic of China at sixty
Subject
  • Since 1949
  • 1949- (Folkrepubliken Kina, Kina)
  • Economic history
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • China > Politics and government > 2002- > Congresses
  • China > Social conditions > 2000- > Congresses
  • China > Economic conditions > 2000- > Congresses
  • China > History > 1949- > Congresses
  • China
  • China
  • Kina > politik och förvaltning > konferenser
  • Kina > sociala förhållanden > konferenser
  • Kina > ekonomiska förhållanden > konferenser
  • Kina > historia > konferenser
Genre/Form
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • A collection of papers originally presented at "The People's Republic of China at 60: an international assessment," a conference held at Harvard University by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies during the Spring of 2009.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English and Chinese.
Contents
Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby -- Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh -- Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese] -- Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese] -- China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross -- The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut -- Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman -- "Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder -- Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese] -- Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe -- "Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn -- A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll -- Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi -- Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman -- Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu -- Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai -- Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins -- Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte -- The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian -- Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu -- The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek -- The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung -- Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi -- The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen -- National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott -- Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.
ISBN
  • 9780674060647
  • 0674060644
LCCN
2010053900
OCLC
  • ocn676725367
  • 676725367
  • SCSB-14446805
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library