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Publisher's acknowledgements | |
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Author's acknowledgements | |
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A note on romanization and pronunciation of Chinese words | |
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Chronology | |
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Who's who | |
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Glossary | |
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Map | |
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Chinas Past | |
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General Introduction | |
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Themes in recent Chinese history | |
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Terms and concepts | |
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Geographical and Historical Background | |
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Geography | |
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Historical overview | |
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China Under the Communist Party | |
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China's New Revolutionary Road, 1949-57 | |
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The CCP leadership | |
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The Party, the government and the military | |
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International relations and the Korean War | |
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Domestic policy: first steps | |
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The Radical Maoist Phase, 1958-76 | |
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Tibet | |
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The Sino-Soviet split | |
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The seeds of the Cultural Revolution | |
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
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Assessing Mao's impact on China | |
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Building Reform-Era China, 1977-89 | |
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Deng reverses the Maoist direction | |
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Foreign investment and the SEZs | |
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Deng and the reorganization of the CCP | |
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Family planning and the 'one-child' policy | |
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The 'opening' of Chinese society in the 1980s | |
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Changes in minority regions | |
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The democracy movement and Tiananmen Square | |
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Deepening Reform: China in the 1990s | |
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Economic growth in the 1990s | |
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Increasing disparity between urban and rural China | |
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China after Deng Xiaoping | |
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Popular culture in the 1990s | |
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Challenges in the 1990s | |
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Pollution and the environment | |
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Crime, corruption and vice | |
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Religious policy | |
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Equity in education | |
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The challenge of employment and the 'floating population' | |
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China's new nationalism | |
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Contemporary Chinese Society | |
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Population and social change | |
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Social classes | |
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Women and the family | |
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Minorities | |
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Education | |
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Health care | |
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The environment | |
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The arts, entertainment and popular culture | |
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Technology and communications | |
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Government, Politics and the Economy Since 2000 | |
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Government, Party and military | |
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The economy | |
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China and the World | |
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China, Europe and the United States | |
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China, Latin America and Africa | |
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China and its Asian neighbours | |
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China and Taiwan | |
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China's continuing rise | |
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Assessing China's Rise | |
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Conclusions | |
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Documents | |
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The 1950 Marriage Law | |
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The 17-Point Agreement between Tibet and China | |
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The Tibetan view of the 17-Point Agreement | |
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'Speak Bitterness' meetings | |
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China's regional autonomy system | |
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Political campaigns of 1957-8 | |
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Recollections of the Great Leap Forward | |
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A letter to Mao on the Great Leap Forward | |
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'The Little Red Book'; Quotations from Chairman Mao | |
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The 16-Point directive on the Cultural Revolution | |
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Accounts of the Cultural Revolution | |
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The 'Ten Lost Years' of the Cultural Revolution | |
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Fang Lizhi on modernization and democracy in China | |
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CCP statement on the events of 4 June 1989 | |
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Privatization of State-owned enterprises | |
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Underground Christian churches | |
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Atheism in China | |
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Measures of China's modernization | |
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China's new consumer culture | |
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Revisions to the 1980 Marriage Law | |
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Chinese history text | |
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China and climate change | |
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Chinese artists | |
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Amendments to the PRC'S 1982 constitution | |
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Nationalism and the internet | |
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The case of Liu Xiaobo | |
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China's economic future | |
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China's harmonious world' | |
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United States-China relations | |
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An assessment of President Hu | |
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China and Central Asia | |
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China and Taiwan | |
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Further Reading | |
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References | |
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Index | |