Description |
viii, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Note |
Originally published: 2005. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-357) and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: the new "New China" -- Search for socialism: from liberation to utopia -- Mao Zedong versus the party: from cult to Cultural Revolution -- The rebel alternative: from 1919 to the Red Guards -- Second cultural revolution: the abortive Great Debate -- Economics in command: the modernization of China -- Peasant China transformed: the rise of rural enterprise -- The growth of dissent: poets and democracy -- The party under pressure: reform and reaction -- The scholars speak out: humanism or bourgeois liberalism? -- The door opens wide: China and the world economy -- Tiananmen Square, 1989: turning-point for China -- Into the new millennium: China transformed -- China and the world: from Mao to market. |
Subject |
China -- History -- 1949-
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
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China -- Economic conditions -- 1949-
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ISBN |
019280734X paperback |
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9780192807342 paperback |
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