Author : Covell F. Meyskens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108489559
An examination of how economic development and everyday life intersected with the temperature of Cold War geopolitics in Mao's China.
Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674040414
Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.
Author : Jian Chen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898902
This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.
Author : Mao Tse-tung
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0486119572
The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Author : Mao Tse-Tung
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1446545318
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung.
Author : Alexander C. Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107057221
On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.
Author : Covell F. Meyskens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 110880862X
In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine, which saw the mobilization of fifteen million people, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half. Drawing on a rich collection of archival documents, memoirs, and oral interviews, Covell Meyskens provides the first history of the Third Front campaign. He shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War, merging global geopolitics with local change.
Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0684856352
Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.
Author : Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1134167768
This book is the first international history of the Third Indochina War, and features contributors from many different countries and scholarly traditions.
Author : Elizabeth Economy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190866071
In The Third Revolution, Elizabeth Economy, one of America's leading China scholars, provides an authoritative overview of contemporary China that makes sense of all of the seeming inconsistencies and ambiguities in its policies and actions.
