China Under MaoChina’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. |
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Contents
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6 The Evolving Party System | 100 |
7 Thaw and Backlash | 123 |
8 Great Leap | 152 |
10 Fractured Rebellion | 200 |
11 Collapse and Division | 231 |
12 Military Rule | 263 |
13 Discord and Dissent | 287 |
14 The Mao Era in Retrospect | 315 |
Notes | 347 |
References | 377 |
Index | 399 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | China Under Mao |
| Author | Andrew G. Walder |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 2015 |
| ISBN | 0674058151, 9780674058156 |
| Length | 413 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Asia / China History / Modern / 20th Century History / Social History Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism Political Science / World / Asian |
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