Dilemmas of victory
Subtitle: the early years of the People's Republic of China
By: edited by Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz.
Contributors: Brown, Jeremy, 1976-; Pickowicz, Paul.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674026162
Subjects: China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Early years of the People's Republic of China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years of the People's Republic of China: an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz; title: Part I: Urban takeover; title: "Clean-up": the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.; title: Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth Perry; title: New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon; title: Part II: Occupying the periphery; title: From resisting communists to resisting America: civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown; title: The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian; title: Big brother is watching: local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess; title: The call of the oases: the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao; title: Part III: The culture of accommodation; title: The crocodile bird: Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link; title: "The very first lesson": teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer; title: Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz; title: Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler; title: Part IV: Family strategies; title: The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick; title: Birthing stories: rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter; title: Capitalists choosing communist China: the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56; title: Sherman Cochran.