Felix Wemheuer

A Social History of Maoist China

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Produktbeschreibung

This new social history of Maoist China provides a compelling account of the tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule. A multi-faceted approach traces the PRC's efforts at modernization and social change, while not losing sight of the human suffering and political terror that remain for many the period's abiding memory.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Asian History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9781107565500
• ISBN-10: 1107565502
• Artikelnr.: 54606706

Autorenporträt

Felix Wemheuer is Chair Professor of Modern China Studies at the University of Cologne. He belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Chinese society under Mao: classifications, social hierarchies and distribution
2. New democracy and the making of new China (1949-52)
3. The transformation to state socialism (1953-7)
4. The great leap into famine (1958-61)
5. The post-famine years: from readjustment to the socialist education campaign (1962-5)
6. The rebellion and its limits: the early cultural revolution (1966-8)
7. Demobilization and restoration: the late cultural revolution (1969-76)
8. Legacies and continuities of the Mao era in reform China.