The People's Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kirby, William C.

Conference Name:

The People's Republic of China at 60: an international assessment (2009 : Harvard University)

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

China--Politics and government--2002---Congresses.

China.

China--Social conditions--2000---Congresses.

China--Economic conditions--2000---Congresses.

China--History--1949---Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, [2011]

Language Note:

English and Chinese.

Summary:

This collection of 26 papers explores the contemporary history and current trends of Chinese government and society six decades after the Chinese Revolution. The contributions have been organized by editor Kirby (director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard U.) according to four main themes: politics, including the international dimension; social transformations of human communities, individual lives, spatial settings, and governance; wealth and well-being in the context of the promise of socialism and the revival of capitalism; and culture, belief, and practice in such realms as art, religion, and ethnic identity. The identification of the collection as "an international assessment" seems a bit of a misnomer, as the vast majority of contributors are affiliated with American academic institutions (Harvard in particular), although a number of these may indeed have an international background and a handful of contributors from Chinese institutions are also included, as are one contributor from Europe and one from Canada. Three of the papers are presented in Chinese with English language abstracts. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby

Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar

The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh

Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese]

Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese]

China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross

The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut

Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman

"Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry

Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder

Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese]

Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe

"Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn

A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll

Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi

Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman

Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu

Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai

Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins

Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte

The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian

Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu

The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman

The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek

The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung

Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi

The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen

National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott

Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.

Notes:

A collection of papers originally presented at "The People's Republic of China at 60: an international assessment," a conference held at Harvard University by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies during the Spring of 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0674060644

9780674060647

OCLC:

676725367

Publisher Number:

99945109285