The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China
ISBN: 9780521145312 | 0521145317
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 9/19/2011
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.Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. Today, China has the world's second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This volume, written by experts in the field, tracks China's extraordinary transformation from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. The latest edition of the book includes a new introduction and a seventh chapter which focuses on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the godfather o... MORE
| Tables and maps | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949-1957 | |
| The Great Leap Forward and the split in the Yan'an leadership, 1958-1965 | p. 87 |
| The Chinese state in crisis, 1966-1969 | p. 147 |
| The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969-1982 | p. 246 |
| The roa... MORE | p. 337 |
| Reaction, resurgence, and succession: Chinese politics since Tiananmen | p. 468 |
| Dilemmas of globalization and governance | p. 528 |
| Appendix: Leaders and Meetings | p. 601 |
| References | p. 607 |
| Index | p. 651 |
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Roderick Macfarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has had an illustrious career. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, the founding editor of The China Quarterly, and a member of Parliament. His publications include Mao's Last Revolution (2006), co-authored with Michael Schoenhals, and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution (3 vols., 1974,1983,1997). He is also co-editor, with the late John K. Fairbank, of volumes 14 and 15 of The Cambridge History of China (1987,1991).
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