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Description

1. xiv, 413 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. "China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members; and a socialist economy modeled after the Soviet Union. Although a large bureaucracy had oversight of this authoritarian system, Mao intervened at every turn. The doctrines and political organization that produced Mao's greatest achievements--victory in the civil war, the creation of China's first modern state, a historic transformation of urban and rural life--also generated his worst failures: the industrial depression and rural famine of the Great Leap Forward and the destruction and stagnation of the Cultural Revolution. Misdiagnosing China's problems as capitalist restoration and prescribing continuing class struggle against imaginary enemies, Mao ruined much of what he had built and created no viable alternative"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Communism
2. Social problems
3. China
4. Economic policy
5. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
6. Zhongguo gong chan dang History > 20th century
7. China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
8. Zhongguo gong chan dang
9. Communism > China > History > 20th century
10. History
11. China > Politics and government > 1949-1976
12. China > Economic policy > 1949-1976
13. Political science
14. Political and social views
15. Social problems > China > History > 20th century
16. Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
17. 1900 - 1999
18. Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Influence
19. Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Political and social views

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Funeral -- From movement to regime -- Rural revolution -- Urban revolution -- The socialist economy -- The evolving party system -- Thaw and backlash -- Great leap -- Toward the Cultural Revolution -- Fractured rebellion -- Collapse and division -- Military rule -- Discord and dissent -- The Mao era in retrospect.

Call number

1. JFE 15-2953

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953-

Title

1. China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900 - 1999

LCCN

1. 2014037102

ISBN

1. 9780674058156 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 0674058151 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 15-2953