History of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976 (Heftet (myke permer))

The volume looks back to the revolutionary People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective, using historical materials such as memoirs and archives. While there was a great deal published on the revolutionary period by political scientists when these events were contemporaneous or near contemporaneous, there is little in the field that both takes advantage of the temporal distance and perspective that we now have in combination with the range of primary materials that have come available in the last ten to fifteen years. The volume contains essays on a variety of particular subjects on the revolutionary People's Republic of China, and, unlike most of the other work on the period that has either come out recently or is in press, gives some coverage to the entirety of the period.

Editor's Introductions: In Search of PRC History Julia Strauss; China's Internationalization in the Early People's Republic: Dreams of a Socialist Economy William C. Kirby; Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949-1956 Julia Strauss; Dilemmas of Inside Agitators: Chinese State Feminists in 1957 Wang Zheng; Aspects of and Institutionalizing Political System: China, 1958-1965 David Bachman; Squeezing the Peasants: Grain Extraction, Food Consumption and Rural Living Standards in Mao's China Robert Ash; Local Cadres Confront the Supernatural: The Politics of Holy Water (Shenshui) in the PRC, 1949-1966 Steve A. Smith; Factional Conflict at Beijing University, 1966-1968 Andrew G Walder; Zheng Junli, Complicity and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949-1976 Paul G. Pickowicz; In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th Century Chinese History Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; The China Quarterly and the History of the PRC Roderick MacFarquhar.