Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China / edited by Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Jeremy, 1976-

Pickowicz, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--1949-1976.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Early years of the People's Republic of China

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Contents:

The early years of the People's Republic of China: an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz

Part I: Urban takeover

"Clean-up": the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth Perry

New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon

Part II: Occupying the periphery

From resisting communists to resisting America: civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown

The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian

Big brother is watching: local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess

The call of the oases: the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao

Part III: The culture of accommodation

The crocodile bird: Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link

"The very first lesson": teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer

Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz

Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler

Part IV: Family strategies

The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick

Birthing stories: rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter

Capitalists choosing communist China: the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman Cochran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-443) and index.

ISBN:

9780674026162

0674026160

OCLC:

122526965