Felix Wemheuer

A Social History of Maoist China

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Produktbeschreibung

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781107123700
• ISBN-10: 1107123704
• Artikelnr.: 54608006

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.