China''s Communist Revolutions - Fifty Years of the People''s Republic of China

Informationen zum Autor Werner Draguhn, David S.G. Goodman Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Challenging the accepted orthodoxy about the Cultural Revolution, the emphasis throughout is on change in the context of 20th century China, and as part of the Chinese Communist Party's search for paths to development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Revolution and Economic Life in Republican China: From WWI 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 phenomenon 7. Is 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

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• Authors: Werner Draguhn, Werner Goodman Draguhn, Institut Fur Asienkunde (Hamburg Germany
• Assisted by: Werner Draguhn (Editor), Draguhn Werner (Editor), David Goodman (Editor), David S. G. Goodman (Editor), David S.G. Goodman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2002
• EAN: 9780700716302
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1630-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Asian History, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions