S G Breslin

Mao

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Produktbeschreibung

Mao 1999 saw the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This introduction to the life and career of Mao Zedong looks back over 50 years to show how Mao established a communist party state across mainland China in 1949 in the face of apparently insurmountable odds, and what he did as its leader in the years that followed. Shaun Breslin's lucid introduction analyses Mao from a number of angles: as revoultionary general as founder and leader of the world's largest nation for almost 30 years as ideologist as astute and often brutal political manipulator and ultimately, as victim of his own obsession with power. Shaun Breslin shows how Mao was driven by a determination to ensure that his revolutionary radicalism would outlive him, and how, ironically, his actions were so extreme that they undermined it - Maoism and Mao's China died with him in 1976. Undoubtedly the best introduction to modern Chinese history and its enigmatic protagonist. Shaun Breslin is Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick, and convenor of the China Research programme at Chatham House. He is author of China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State and Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 131mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780582437487
• ISBN-10: 0582437482
• Artikelnr.: 22260255

Autorenporträt

Shaun Breslin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 From Peasant to Power
Chapter 2 Establishing the New Political Order: Maoism and its Critics
Chapter 3 The First Major Cleavage: 1949-1957
Chapter 4 Towards the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 5 Launching the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 6 Mao and the World
Chapter 7 The Politics of De-Maoisation