Title: People's China : a brief history /
Authors: Dietrich, Craig.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: China History
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Old China and young revolutionaries. Village China and young Mao ; To the city ; Unification, invasion, and civil war ; Personalities and causes ; Was China ripe for revolution? -- 2. Revolutionaries seize power : 1949-52. Establishing sovereignty ; Installing the new order ; The Korean War ; Campaigns ; Disappointments, ironies, and contradictions -- 3. Socialist transformation : 1953-57. The first Five-Year Plan ; The high tide of 1955 ; The Eighth Party Congress, September 1956 ; The Hundred Flowers Campaign -- 4. The Great Leap forward : 1958-60. Initial states of the Great Leap ; The Great Leap in the ascendant ; The Great Leap in decline -- 5. Depression, recovery, and struggle at the top : 1960-65. The immediate repercussions of the Great Leap ; Political crisis -- 6. The cultural revolution : 1966-69. Participants ; Tidal wave ; The flood recedes -- 7. The cultural revolution in retreat : 1969-76. Failure to consolidate radical rule : 1969-71 ; The uneasy regime of the moderates : 1972-75 ; Mao's final months and the arrest of the Gang of Four : 1976 ; An end and a beginning -- 8. Crossing the river, groping for the stones : reform in the 1980s. Power struggle ; Socialist economics with Chinese characteristics ; Political dilemmas ; Foreign policy ; Chinese society under reform ; Political tensions -- 9. We must not let the next generation pour a bucket of excrement on our heads" : the tragedy at Tiananmen. Seven extraordinary weeks -- 10. The nineties. Regaining control ; Economic policy ; Political rigidity ; China in a changing world ; A medley of problems.