The Cambridge history of China. Volume 14, The People's Republic. Part 1, The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949-1965 / edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacFarquhar, Roderick, editor.

Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--1949-1976.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 722 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Summary:

This is the first of the two final volumes of The Cambridge History of China, which describe the efforts of the People's Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regime's first sixteen years (1949-65). Part I chronicles the attempt to adapt the Soviet model of development to China, and Part II covers the subsequent efforts of China's leaders to find native solutions that would provide more rapid and appropriate answers to China's problems. Each of the two parts of the volume analyzes the key issues and developments in the spheres of politics, economics, culture, education, and foreign relations. The contributors, all leading scholars of the period, show the interrelation of Chinese actions in all these spheres, and the describe how, gradually, events led to the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Tse-tung in 1966.

Contents:

The reunification of China / John K. Fairbank

Emulating the Soviet model, 1949-1957

Establishment and consolidation of the new regime / Frederick C. Teiwes

Economic recovery and the 1st Five-Year Plan / Nicholas R. Lardy

Education for the new order / Suzanne Pepper

The Party and the intellectuals / Merlie Goldman

Foreign relations: from the Korean War to the Bandung Line / Mineo Nakajima

The search for a Chinese road, 1958-1965

The Great Leap Forward and the split in the Yenan leadership / Kenneth Lieberthal

The Chinese economy under stress, 1958-1965 / Nicholas R. Lardy

New directions in education / Suzanne Pepper

The Party and the intellectuals: phase two / Merle Goldman

The Sino-Soviet split / Allen S. Whiting

Epilogue / Roderick Macfarquhar

Appendixes: Meetings and Leaders.

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ISBN:

9781139054812 (ebook)

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