The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976

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Editor's introductions: in search of PRC history Julia Strauss
1. China's internationalization in the early People's Republic: dreams of a socialist economy William C. Kirby
2. Morality, coercion and state building by campaign in the early PRC: regime consolidation and after, 1949–56 Julia Strauss
3. Dilemmas of inside agitators: Chinese state feminists in 1957 Wang Zheng
4. Aspects of an institutionalizing political system: China, 1958–65 David Bachman
5. Squeezing the peasants: grain extraction, food consumption and rural living standards in Mao's China Robert Ash
6. Local cadres confront the supernatural: the politics of holy water (Shenshui) in the PRC, 1949–66 Steve A. Smith
7. Factional conflict at Beijing University, 1966–8 Andrew G Walder
8. Zheng Junli, complicity and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949–76 Paul G. Pickowicz
9. In search of a master narrative for twentieth-century Chinese history Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
10. The China Quarterly and the history of the PRC Roderick MacFarquhar.

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