Research Catalog

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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Details

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