The history of the PRC (1949-1976)
By: edited by Julia Strauss.
Contributors: Strauss, Julia C.
Series: The China quarterly special issues -- new ser., no. 7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780521696968; 9780521696969
Subjects: China -- History -- 1949-1976.
Other titles: History of the People's Republic of China (1949-1976)
Notes: "First published 2006 (China Quarterly 188 December 2006)"--T.p. verso.

"Most of the articles in this volume were first presented at a workshop on the history of the People's Republic of China held at the School of Oriental and African Studies on 7-8 October 2005"--Acknowledgement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: China's internationalization in the early People's Republic : dreams of a socialist world economy / William C. Kirby; title: Morality, coercion and state building by campaign in the early PRC : regime consolidation and after, 1949-1956 / Julia Strauss; title: Dilemmas inside agitators : Chinese state feminists in 1957 / Wang Zheng; title: Aspects of an institutionalizing political system : China, 1958-1965 / David Bachman; title: Squeezing the peasants : grain extraction, food consumption and rural living standards in Mao's China / Robert Ash; title: Local cadres confront the supernatural : the politics of holy water (Shenshui) in the PRC, 1949-1966 / Steve A. Smith; title: Factional conflict at Beijing University, 1966-1968 / Andrew G. Walder; title: Zheng Junli, complicity and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 / Paul G. Pickowicz; title: In search of a master narrative for 20th-century Chinese history / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; title: The China quarterly and the history of the PRC / Roderick MacFarquhar.