China's Communist Revolutions: Fifty Years of The People's Republic of China

by Draguhn,Werner; Draguhn,Werner

• ISBN13: 9780700716302
• ISBN10: 0700716300
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Revolution and Economic Life in Republican China: From World War I until 1949	1	(22)
Ramon H. Myers
Collapse of the Old Order, Germination of the New: Chinese Society during the Civil War, 1945--1949	23	(27)
Joseph W. Esherick
The Politics of the Civil War: Party Rule, Territorial Administration and Constitutional Government	50	(32)
John Fitzgerald
The Political Economy of Socialist Transition: Restructuring Inequality	82	(16)
Mark Selden
China in the Wake of the Communist Revolution: Social Transformations, 1949--1966	98	(26)
Marie-Claire Bergere
The Cultural Revolution as an Economic Phenomenon	124	(35)
Robert Ash
Was the Cultural Revolution Really Necessary?	159	(18)
Michael Schoenhals
Economic Growth and Distributive Justice in the Post-Mao Reform Period	177	(31)
Margot Schuller
China's Foreign Relations, 1978-1999: Unleashed, the Tiger Feels Lonely	208	(42)
Kay Moller
Centre and Periphery after Twenty Years of Reform: Redefining the Chinese Polity	250	(27)
David S.G. Goodman
List of Contributors	277