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Mao's China and after : a history of the People's Republic
- Title
- Mao's China and after : a history of the People's Republic / Maurice Meisner.
- Author
- Meisner, Maurice J., 1931-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Free Press, c1999.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 587 p. : map; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- History of the People's Republic
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-567) and index.
- Contents
- Western imperialism and the weakness of Chinese social classes -- The defection of the intellectuals -- The abortiveness of bourgeois and proletarian revolution -- The Maoist revolution and the Yan'an legacy -- The new state -- The cities: the rise and fall of a national capitalism -- Land reform: the bourgeois revolution in the countryside -- The social and political consequences of industrialization -- Agricultural collectivization, 1953-1957 -- The hundred flowers: socialism, bureaucracy, and freedom -- Permanent revolution: the ideological origins of the Great Leap -- Economics of the Great Leap Forward -- The people's communes and the "transition to communism": 1958-1960 -- The bureaucratic restoration -- The new economics policy, 1961-1965 -- The socialist education movement, 1962-1965 -- The concept of cultural revolution -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 -- Social results of the Cultural Revolution -- The aftermath of the cultural revolution and the close of the Maoist era, 1969-1976 -- The legacies of the Maoist era -- The rise of Deng Xiaoping and the critique of Maoism -- Market reforms and the development of capitalism -- The struggle for democracy -- The end of the reign of Deng Xiaoping: China in the 1990s.
- Call Number
- DS777.55
- ISBN
- 0684856352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98031734
- OCLC
- 40043513
- Author
- Meisner, Maurice J., 1931-
- Title
- Mao's China and after : a history of the People's Republic / Maurice Meisner.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Free Press, c1999.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-567) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR DS777.55 .M455 1999