Book Description
Examines the People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective.
Author : Julia Strauss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521696968
Examines the People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective.
Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1444150766
The second edition of this best-selling title has been revised and updated to reflect the needs of the current specifications. The title charts China's remarkable and tumultuous development from the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 to Mao's death in 1976. The book examines the widespread social and economic change that resulted from the Communist revolution, including the changes to agriculture, the five-year-plans and the 'Hundred Flowers' campaign. It then goes on to look at the reasons for the Cultural Revolution and its legacy. In addition, the author analyses Mao's status as a political leader and his importance in the domestic developments of China from 1949-76. Throughout the book, key dates, terms and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam style questions and tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.
Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780340688533
This work charts China's remarkable and tumultuous development from the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 through to the hand-over of Hong Kong by Britain. Particular coverage is given to the country's bitter struggle with the USSR for leadership of the international revolution and to its developing role as a world power. Sections on China's international relations focus on various issues including the Korean War, the on-going Taiwan question, the Sino-Indian war and the Sino-American rapprochement. In addition the author analyzes Mao's status as a political leader and discusses the importance of the Great Leap Forward, Mao's five-year plans and the concept of permanent revolution. The volume also incorporates a historiography and a selection of source-based and essay questions.
Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hodder Education Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : 9780340929278
Charts China's development from the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 - Great Leap Forward - Cultural Revolution - China after Mao - Tiananmen Square massacre - China and Hong Kong - Taiwan - Sino-Soviet rivalry - Mao's China and international relations - The Deng Revolution 1978-97.
Author : Jean Chesneaux
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
Examines the leaders, problems, controversies, and political, economic, social, and cultural events in China from 1949 to 1976.
Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107123704
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Author : Christian Sorace
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1760462497
Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.
Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108169295
In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world's largest modern urban society. Throughout their long history, Chinese cities have been shaped by interactions with those around the world, and the story of urban China is a crucial part of the history of how the world has become an urban society. Exploring the global connections of Chinese cities, the urban system, urban governance, and daily life alongside introductions to major historical debates and extracts from primary sources, this is essential reading for all those interested in China and in urban history.
Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0674286707
China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. “Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today...[It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others).” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Andrew Walder’s account of Mao’s time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful...Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao’s China and pulls them apart...What was it that led so much of China’s population to follow Mao’s orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder’s book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world’s most important revolutions.” —Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Harold C. Hinton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842021661