New Perspectives on State Socialism in China - Hardcover

Cheek, Timothy; Saich, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765600412 ISBN 13: 9780765600417

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP.

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Review:

"In their search for new perspectives, the editors field a mix of established and younger scholars, whose articles have in common an exceedingly rigorous exploitation of new scholarly resources. This self-consciousness in the exploitation of sources is demonstrated by an unusually voluminous use of footnotes and by a separate section devoted to 'Sources and Methods.' This gives the collection a value as a reference work transcending its contribution to historical scholarship".

-- China Review International

From the Back Cover:

The eight research essays in this volume uncover new perspectives on and critique new democracy sources about the creation, operation, and first major crises of state socialism in China -- from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the aftermath in the early 1960s of the Great Leap Forward.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0765600412
• ISBN 13: 9780765600417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422