This volume presents papers by international scholars on the economic, social and political environments out of which the PRC emerged and the socio-political impact of communist power since then. The contributions present interpretations of key aspects of reform such as economic structures, foreign policy and political change, and the socio-political impact of communist power. The book challenges the accepted orthodoxy about the Cultural Revolution. Throughout, the emphasis is on change in the context of 20th century China, and as part of the Chinese Communist Party's search for paths to development: hence the title that speaks in the plural about revolutions. This review of social and political change is highly topical in view of the PRC's recent 50th anniversary.
Edited by:
Werner Draguhn,
David S.G. Goodman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780700716302
ISBN 10: 0700716300
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 March 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Werner Draguhn, David S.G. Goodman
