China Since 1949

by Benson,Linda

• ISBN13: 9781408237694
• ISBN10: 1408237695
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-05-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Each book in the Seminar Studies in History series provides a concise and reliable introduction to complex events and debates. Written by acknowledged experts and supported by extracts from historical Documents, a Chronology, Glossary, Who's Who of key figures and Guide to Further Reading, Seminar Studies in History are the essential guides to understanding a topic.

Author Biography

Linda Benson is Professor of Chinese History at Oakland University, Michigan, and holds degrees from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Leeds. She is the author of a number of books, including China's Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China's Kazaks (1998) and Across China's Gobi: The Lives of Evangeline French, Mildred Cable and Francesca French (2008).

Table of Contents

Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xi
Author's acknowledgements	p. xiii
A note on romanization and pronunciation of Chinese words	p. xiv
Chronology	p. xv
Who's who	p. xxiv
Glossary	p. xxx
Map	p. xliv
Chinas Past	p. 1
General Introduction	p. 3
Themes in recent Chinese history	p. 6
Terms and concepts	p. 9
Geographical and Historical Background	p. 12
Geography	p. 12
Historical overview	p. 13
China Under the Communist Party	p. 19
China's New Revolutionary Road, 1949-57	p. 21
The CCP leadership	p. 22
The Party, the government and the military	p. 24
International relations and the Korean War	p. 26
Domestic policy: first steps	p. 27
The Radical Maoist Phase, 1958-76	p. 35
Tibet	p. 38
The Sino-Soviet split	p. 39
The seeds of the Cultural Revolution	p. 39
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution	p. 41
Assessing Mao's impact on China	p. 47
Building Reform-Era China, 1977-89	p. 50
Deng reverses the Maoist direction	p. 50
Foreign investment and the SEZs	p. 52
Deng and the reorganization of the CCP	p. 53
Family planning and the 'one-child' policy	p. 54
The 'opening' of Chinese society in the 1980s	p. 55
Changes in minority regions	p. 56
The democracy movement and Tiananmen Square	p. 58
Deepening Reform: China in the 1990s	p. 64
Economic growth in the 1990s	p. 65
Increasing disparity between urban and rural China	p. 67
China after Deng Xiaoping	p. 68
Popular culture in the 1990s	p. 69
Challenges in the 1990s	p. 71
Pollution and the environment	p. 71
Crime, corruption and vice	p. 73
Religious policy	p. 74
Equity in education	p. 77
The challenge of employment and the 'floating population'	p. 77
China's new nationalism	p. 79
Contemporary Chinese Society	p. 82
Population and social change	p. 82
Social classes	p. 83
Women and the family	p. 85
Minorities	p. 88
Education	p. 89
Health care	p. 91
The environment	p. 92
The arts, entertainment and popular culture	p. 96
Technology and communications	p. 97
Government, Politics and the Economy Since 2000	p. 100
Government, Party and military	p. 100
The economy	p. 106
China and the World	p. 110
China, Europe and the United States	p. 110
China, Latin America and Africa	p. 113
China and its Asian neighbours	p. 115
China and Taiwan	p. 119
China's continuing rise	p. 120
Assessing China's Rise	p. 121
Conclusions	p. 123
Documents	p. 129
The 1950 Marriage Law	p. 130
The 17-Point Agreement between Tibet and China	p. 131
The Tibetan view of the 17-Point Agreement	p. 132
'Speak Bitterness' meetings	p. 133
China's regional autonomy system	p. 134
Political campaigns of 1957-8	p. 136
Recollections of the Great Leap Forward	p. 137
A letter to Mao on the Great Leap Forward	p. 138
'The Little Red Book'; Quotations from Chairman Mao	p. 139
The 16-Point directive on the Cultural Revolution	p. 140
Accounts of the Cultural Revolution	p. 142
The 'Ten Lost Years' of the Cultural Revolution	p. 143
Fang Lizhi on modernization and democracy in China	p. 145
CCP statement on the events of 4 June 1989	p. 147
Privatization of State-owned enterprises	p. 149
Underground Christian churches	p. 150
Atheism in China	p. 151
Measures of China's modernization	p. 152
China's new consumer culture	p. 154
Revisions to the 1980 Marriage Law	p. 156
Chinese history text	p. 157
China and climate change	p. 159
Chinese artists	p. 160
Amendments to the PRC'S 1982 constitution	p. 161
Nationalism and the internet	p. 162
The case of Liu Xiaobo	p. 164
China's economic future	p. 165
China's harmonious world'	p. 167
United States-China relations	p. 168
An assessment of President Hu	p. 169
China and Central Asia	p. 171
China and Taiwan	p. 172
Further Reading	p. 175
References	p. 182
Index	p. 185
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