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Zusammenfassung The volume looks at the revolutionary People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective! using historical materials such as memoirs and archives. The volume contains essays on a variety of subjects and provides coverage across the entire revolutionary phase. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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? Julia Strauss; 3. Dilemmas of inside agitators: Chinese state feminists in 1957 Wang Zheng; 4. Aspects of an institutionalizing political system: China, 1958? 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? Steve A. Smith; 7. Factional conflict at Beijing University, 1966?Andrew G Walder; 8. Zheng Junli, complicity and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949? 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.
