The changing face of China: from Mao to market / John Gittings
- Bib ID:
- 3582346
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gittings, John
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
- [ix], 372 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0192806122
- Summary:
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"Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? This highly readable account, from Asia correspondent and China expert John Gittings, provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions for the world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction : the new 'new China'
- 2. Search for socialism : from liberation to Utopia
- 3. Mao Zedong versus the party : from cult to cultural revolution
- 4. The rebel alternative : from 1919 to the red guards
- 5. Second cultural revolution : the abortive great debate
- 6. Economics in command : the modernization of China
- 7. Peasant China transformed : the rise of rural enterprise
- 8. The growth of dissent : poets and democracy
- 9. The party under pressure : reform and reaction
- 10. The scholars speak out : humanism or bourgeois liberalism?
- 11. The door opens wide : China and the world economy
- 12. Tianammen Square, 1989 : turning-point for China
- 13. Into the new millennium : China transformed
- 14. China and the world : from Mao to market.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.
- Subject:
- China -- History -- 1949-
- Also Titled:
- From Mao to market
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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