China without Mao : the search for a new order / Immanuel C.Y. Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsü, Immanuel C. Y. (Immanuel Chung-Yueh), 1923-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--1976-2002.

China.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now available in a new, updated edition, this groundbreaking book on post-Mao China, written by the distinguished Asian scholar Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, explores the astonishing transformation that has occurred there. Since Mao Zedong's death in 1976, China's leaders have launched an ambitious modernization program aimed at making their nation a relatively prosperous socialist state by the year 2000. Along with the first edition's examination of the smashing of the Gang of Four, the evolution of a new order under Deng Xiaoping, the manner and costs of modernization, the normalization of relation

Contents:

Contents; 1 The Smashing of the Gang of Four; The Deaths of National Leaders; The Gang of Four; Mao and the Gang; 2 Deng Xiaoping and China's New Order; Deng's Rehabilitation; Deng's Drive for Political Dominance; The Demystification of Mao; 3 The Normalization of Relations between China and the United States; The Normalization of Diplomatic Relations; The Normalization of Trade and Other Relations; 4 The Four Modernizations; The Ten-Year Plan; Major Problems of Modernization: Capital, Manpower and Planning; Retrenchment and Revised Priorities

Profit, Material Incentive, and Structural Reorganization The Consequences of Rapid Modernization; Foreign Value and Chinese Essence; 5 The End of the Maoist Age; The Trial of the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao Group; Assessments of Mao; A New Leadership and a New Order; Chinese Communism: A Thirty-five-Year Review; 6 Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics; The Vision of Deng Xiaoping; Agricultural Reform; Industrial Reform; The Open-Door Policy; Future Prospects of Growth; 7 China in Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy; Student Demonstrations

The Thirteenth Party CongressThe Coastal Development Plan; Society in Flux: Rising Inflation and Falling Ethics; 8 Taiwan's ""Economic Miracle"" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China; Causes of Taiwan's Economic Success; The Prospects for Reunification; 9 Postscript: The Violent Crackdown at Tian-an-men Square, June 3-4,1989; The Gathering Storm; The Party Split; The Mind-set of the Gerontocracy; The Massacre; Rewriting History; Guide to Pinyin and Wade-Giles Systems; Appendix: On Questions of Party History; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-53994-1

1-4294-0002-1

0-19-802265-4

0-19-506056-3

OCLC:

437173084