People's China a Brief History
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 3
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
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A NOTE ON THE ROMANIZATION OF CHINESE WORDSINTRODUCTION1: OLD CHINA AND YOUNG REVOLUTIONARIESVillage China and Young MaoTo the cityUnification, Invasion, and Civil WarPersonalities and CausesWas China Ripe for Revolution?2: REVOLUTIONARIES SEIZE POWER: 1949-52Establishing SovereigntyInstalling the New OrderThe Korean WarCampaignsDisappointments, Ironies, and Contradictions3: SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION: 1953-57The First Five-Year PlanThe First Five-Year PlanThe High Tide of 1955The Eighth Party Congress, September 1956The Hundred Flowers Campaign4: THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDInitial Stages of the Great LeapThe Great Leap in the AscendantThe Great Leap in Decline5: DEPRESSION, RECOVERY, AND STRUGGLE AT THE TOP: 1960-65The Immediate Repercussions of the Great LeapPolitical Crisis6: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: 1966-69ParticipantsTidal WaveThe Flood Receded7: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN RETREAT: 1969-76Failure to Consolidate Radical Rule: 1969-71The Uneasy Regime of the Moderates: 1972-75Mao's Final Months and the Arrest of the Gang of Four: 1976An End and a Beginning8: CROSSING THE RIVER, GROPING FOR THE STONES: REFORM IN THE 1980sPower StruggleSocialist Economies with Chinese CharacteristicsPolitical DilemmasForeign PolicyChinese Society Under ReformPolitical Tensions9: "WE MUST NOT LET THE NEXT GENERATION POUR A BUCKET OF EXCREMENT ON OUR HEADS": THE TRAGEDY AT TIANANMENSeven Extraordinary Weeks10: THE NINETIES: TWO FACES OF CHINARegaining ControlThe Stern Face of AuthorityXiaokang: The Happy Face of "Modest Prosperity"New World, New PossibilitiesChinese Society and Culture: Trends and ProblemsNOTESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX
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