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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785943003321

Titolo

China's Communist revolutions : fifty years of the People's Republic of China / / edited by Werner Draguhn and David S.G. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-13090-X

1-283-71380-2

0-203-03751-0

1-136-13082-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DraguhnWerner

GoodmanDavid S. G

Disciplina

951.05

Soggetti

Communism - China

Revolutions - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

China's Communist  Revolutions Fifty Years of The People's Republic of China; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Revolution and Economic Life in Republican China: From World War I until 1949; 2 Collapse of the Old Order, Germination of the New: Chinese Society during the Civil War, 1945-1949; 3 The Politics of the Civil War: Party Rule, Territorial Administration and Constitutional Government; 4 The Political Economy of Socialist Transition: Restructuring Inequality; 5 China in the Wake of the Communist Revolution: Social Transformations, 1949-1966

6 The Cultural Revolution as an Economic Phenomenon7 Was the Cultural Revolution Really Necessary?; 8 Economic Growth and Distributive Justice in the Post-Mao Reform Period; 9 China's Foreign Relations, 1978-1999: Unleashed, the Tiger Feels Lonely; 10 Centre and Periphery after Twenty Years of Reform: Redefining the Chinese Polity; List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the Communist Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, the Reform Period. These changes are analysed from the



political, economic and social points of view, chllaenging accepted orthodoxy. Throughout, the emphasis is on change in the context of contemporary China, and as part of the Chinese Communist Party's search for paths to development.