The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976
The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976
£33.00
GBPThe volume looks back to the revolutionary People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective, using historical materials such as memoirs and archives. While there was a great deal published on the revolutionary period by political scientists when these events were contemporaneous or near contemporaneous, there is little in the field that both takes advantage of the temporal distance and perspective that we now have in combination with the range of primary materials that have come available in the last ten to fifteen years. The volume contains essays on a variety of particular subjects on the revolutionary People's Republic of China, and, unlike most of the other work on the period that has either come out recently or is in press, gives some coverage to the entirety of the period.
- An integrative introduction that places this volume in the wider and ongoing literature on the subject
- Publishes articles with a wide variety of historical approaches
Product details
July 2007Paperback
9780521696968
262 pages
240 × 155 × 20 mm
0.46kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
