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| A Note On The Romanization Of Chinese Words | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Old China and Young Revolutionaries | |
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| Village China and Young Mao | |
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| To the city | |
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| Unification, Invasion, and Civil War | |
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| Personalities and Causes | |
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| Was China Ripe for Revolution? | |
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| Revolutionaries Seize Power: 1949-52 | |
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| Establishing Sovereignty | |
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| Installing the New Order | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| Campaigns | |
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| Disappointments, Ironies, and Contradictions | |
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| Socialist Transformation: 1953-57 | |
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| The First Five-Year Plan | |
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| The First Five-Year Plan | |
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| The High Tide of 1955 | |
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| The Eighth Party Congress, September 1956 | |
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| The Hundred Flowers Campaign | |
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| The Great Leap Forward | |
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| Initial Stages of the Great Leap | |
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| The Great Leap in the Ascendant | |
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| The Great Leap in Decline | |
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| Depression, Recovery, and Struggle At The Top: 1960-65 | |
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| The Immediate Repercussions of the Great Leap | |
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| Political Crisis | |
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| The Cultural Revolution: 1966-69 | |
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| Participants | |
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| Tidal Wave | |
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| The Flood Receded | |
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| The Cultural Revolution In Retreat: 1969-76 | |
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| Failure to Consolidate Radical Rule: 1969-71 | |
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| The Uneasy Regime of the Moderates: 1972-75 | |
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| Mao's Final Months and the Arrest of the Gang of Four: 1976 | |
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| An End and a Beginning | |
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| Crossing The River, Groping For The Stones: Reform In The 1980s | |
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| Power Struggle | |
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| Socialist Economies with Chinese Characteristics | |
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| Political Dilemmas | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| Chinese Society Under Reform | |
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| Political Tensions | |
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| ""We Must Not Let The Next Generation Pour A Bucket Of Excrement On Our Heads"": The Tragedy At Tiananmen | |
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| Seven Extraordinary Weeks | |
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| The Nineties: Two Faces Of China | |
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| Regaining Control | |
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| The Stern Face of Authority | |
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| Xiaokang: The Happy Face of ""Modest Prosperity"" | |
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| New World, New Possibilities | |
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| Chinese Society and Culture: Trends and Problems | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Index | |