China since 1949, 2nd Edition

Written in accessible and engaging prose, this fully updated edition of China Since 1949 is a concise but comprehensive introduction to China’s recent past, and contains all the useful features expected from a book in the Seminar Studies series.

CONTENTS

                Introduction to the Series  

                A Note on Romanization and Pronunciation of Chinese Words

                Acknowledgements            

                Publishers’ Acknowledgements       

                Chronology of Major Events            

                Maps     

PART ONE: CHINA’S PAST            

1.             GENERAL INTRODUCTION            

                Themes in Recent Chinese History  

                Terms and Concepts          

2.             GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND             

                Geography           

                Historical Overview            

PART TWO: CHINA UNDER THE COMMUNIST PARTY        

3.             CHINA’S NEW REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, 1949–57  

                The CCP Leadership           

                The Party, the Government and the Military  

                International Relations and the Korean War  

                Domestic Policy: First Steps             

4.             THE RADICAL MAOIST PHASE, 1958–76   

                Tibet      

                The Sino-Soviet Split         

                The Seeds of the Cultural Revolution             

                The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution      

                Assessing Mao’s Impact on China 

5.             BUILDING REFORM-ERA CHINA, 1977–89 

                Deng Reverses the Maoist Direction              

                Foreign Investment and the SEZs    

                Deng and the Reorganization of the CCP       

                Family Planning and the ‘One Child’ Policy   

                The ‘Opening’ of Chinese Society in the 1980s             

                Changes in Minority Regions           

                The Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Square     

6.             DEEPENING REFORM: CHINA IN THE 1990s              

                Economic Growth in the 1990s          

                Increasing Disparity between Urban and Rural China  

                China after Deng Xiaoping

                Popular Culture in the 1990s             

7.             CHALLENGES in the 1990s               

                Pollution and the Environment         

                Crime, Corruption and Vice               

                Religious Policy  

                Equity in Education            

                The Challenge of Employment and the ‘Floating Population’     

                China’s New Nationalism  

8.             CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SOCIETY

                Population and Social Change

                Social Classes

                Women and the Family

                Minorities

                Education

                Health Care

                The Environment

                The Arts, Entertainment, and Popular Culture

                Technology and Communication

9.  GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND THE ECONOMY SINCE 2000

                Government, Party and Military

                The Economy

10.    CHINA AND THE WORLD     

                China, Europe and the USA              

                China, Latin America, and Africa

                China and its Asian Neighbors

                China and Taiwan               

                China as a Regional Power

PART THREE: ASSESSING CHINA’S RISE  

11.           CONCLUSIONS  

                PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS            

                Glossary               

                Who’s Who         

                Bibliography

                Index