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The Cambridge History of China

Volume 15. The People's Republic

Part 2. Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966–1982

Part of The Cambridge History of China

Editors:
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University, Massachusetts
John K. Fairbank, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Stuart R. Schram, Harry Harding, Thomas Robinson, Roderick MacFarquhar, Jonathan D. Pollack, Dwight H. Perkins, Suzanne Pepper, Douwe Fokkema, Richard Madsen, Martin King Whyte, Cyril Birch, Ralph Clough

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Date Published: March 1992
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521243377

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Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched the movement. The contributors grapple with the conflict of evidence between what was said favourably about the Cultural Revolution at the time and the often diametrically opposed retrospective accounts. Volume 15, together with Volume 14, provides the most comprehensive and clearest account of how revolutionary China has developed in response to the upheavals initiated by Mao and Teng Hsiao-p'ing.

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Product details
- Date Published: March 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521243377
- length: 1136 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 163 x 76 mm
- weight: 1.66kg
- contains: 14 maps 38 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Mao Tse-tung's thought from 1949 to 1976 Stuart R. Schram
Part I. The Cultural Revolution: China in Turmoil, 1966–9:
2. The Chinese state in crisis Harry Harding
3. China confronts the Soviet Union: warfare and diplomacy on China's inner Asian Frontiers Thomas Robinson
Part II. The Cultural Revolution: The Struggle for the Succession, 1969–82:
4. The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism Roderick MacFarquhar
5. The opening to America Jonathan D. Pollack
Part III. The Cultural Revolution and its Aftermath:
6. China's economic policy and performance Dwight H. Perkins
7. Education Suzanne Pepper
8. Literature and the arts Douwe Fokkema
Part IV. Life and Letters under Communism:
9. The countryside under Communism Richard Madsen
10. Urban life in the People's Republic Martin King Whyte
11. Literature under Communism Cyril Birch
Part V. The Separated Province:
12. Twaiwan under Nationalist rule, 1949–82 Ralph Clough
Epilogue: the onus of unity Roderick MacFarquhar.
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Editors
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University, Massachusetts
John K. Fairbank, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Contributors
Stuart R. Schram, Harry Harding, Thomas Robinson, Roderick MacFarquhar, Jonathan D. Pollack, Dwight H. Perkins, Suzanne Pepper, Douwe Fokkema, Richard Madsen, Martin King Whyte, Cyril Birch, Ralph Clough