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The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1949–1965

Series The Cambridge History of China, Volume 14, Part 1

Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank

Publication Date 1987

Hardback ISBN-10 052124336X

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521243360

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521243360

Overview

A century of revolutionary upheaval in China reached a climax in 1949 with the creation of the People's Republic. A central government had now gained full control of the Chinese mainland, thus achieving the national unity so long desired. Moreover, this central government was committed for the first time to the overall modernization of the nation's polity, economy, and society. 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.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1949–1965 in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge History of China Vol. 14, part 1: The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1949–1965

Frontmatter

The reunification of China by John K. Fairbank

Emulating the Soviet model, 1949–1957

The search for a Chinese road, 1958–1965

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