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Mao's China and After A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition

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ISBN-10: 0684856352

ISBN-13: 9780684856353

Edition: 3rd 1999

Authors: Maurice Meisner

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In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is known for, Meisner moves far beyond his previous work to paint a never-before-seen portrait of the…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Preface to the Third Edition
The Revolutionary Heritage
Western Imperialism and the Weakness of Chinese Social Classes
The Defection of the Intellectuals
The Abortiveness of Bourgeois and Proletarian Revolution
The Maoist Revolution and the Yan'an Legacy
The New Order, 1949-1955
The New State
The Cities: The Rise and Fall of National Capitalism
Land Reform: The Bourgeois Revolution in the Countryside
The Social and Political Consequences of Industrialization
Agricultural Collectivization, 1953-1957
Utopianism, 1956-1960
The Hundred Flowers: Socialism, Bureaucracy, and Freedom
Permanent Revolution: The Ideological Origins of the Great Leap
Economics of the Great Leap Forward
The People's Communes and the "Transition to Communism": 1958-1960
The Thermidorian Reaction, 1960-1965
The Bureaucratic Restoration
The New Economic Policy, 1961-1965
The Socialist Education Movement, 1962-1965
The Cultural Revolution and its Aftermath, 1966-1976
The Concept of Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969
Social Results of the Cultural Revolution
The Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and the Close of the Maoist Era, 1969-1976
Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism, 1976-1998
The Legacies of the Maoist Era
The Rise of Deng Xiaoping and the Critique of Maoism
Market Reforms and the Development of Capitalism
The Struggle for Democracy
The End of the Reign of Deng Xiaoping: China in the 1990s
Selected Bibliography
Index