Changing Face of China From Mao to Market

Name: Changing Face of China From Mao to Market
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ISBN: 9780192807342

ISBN-10: 019280734X

ISBN-13: 9780192807342

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Gittings

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Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable account, John Gittings provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions for the world. In the 60 years since Mao Zedong took the road to victory, China has undergone not one but two revolutions. The first swept away the old corrupt society and sought to build a 'spotless' new socialism behind closed doors; the second since Mao's death has focused on an economic agenda…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



List of Illustrations



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


Notes


Chronology 1949-2004


China's Political Leaders


Select Bibliography


Index of Names


General Index