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Eating bitterness : new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine
When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that not even one person shall die of hunger. Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.
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Enterprise, organization, and technology in China : a socialist experiment, 1950-1971
\"Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China's managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival resources, it details and assesses the course of technical and organizational experimentation at state-owned, cooperative, and private enterprises as the PRC strove to construct a socialist economy through trial-and-error initiatives. Core questions treated are: How did Chinese enterprises operate, evolve, experiment, improvise and adjust during the PRC's first generation? What technological initiatives were crucial to these processes, necessarily developed with limited expertise and thin financial resources? How could constructing \"socialism with Chinese characteristics\" have helped lay foundations for the post-1980 \"Chinese miracle,\" as the PRC confidently entered the 21st century while Soviet and Central European socialisms crumbled? And what might current-day Western managers and entrepreneurs learn from Chinese practice and performance a half-century ago? Readers can anticipate a granular, bottom-up analysis of how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how managers and technicians emerged after the capitalist exodus, how organizations experimented and adapted, and how the controversies and convulsions of the PRC's early decades fashioned durable technical and organizational capabilities\"-- Back cover.
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China's economic relations with the West and Japan, 1949-79 : grain, trade and diplomacy
Between 1949 and 1979 China was officially self sufficient and under allied trade embargo, this text examines the complicated history of how economic relations between China and the West/Japan developed during that period
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Chinese education in transition : prelude to the Cultural Revolution
Recent dramatic developments in China have increased Western interest in both her institutions and her politics. However, most of the studies dealing with the 'new' China tend to concentrate on recent events, leaving undocumented, particularly, the years between the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 and the onset of the Cultural Revolution. To supplement this gap in the literature, Dr. Julia Kwong here examines the workings of a crucial institution- education-during this period in China's history. The years from 1949 to 1966 saw swings from one educational policy to another, as proponents with differing views on how to achieve a true socialist state gained or lost ascendancy. The reciprocal key influence on each other of the economy and the educational system is Professor Kwong's focus. A deliberate attempt is made to evaluate critically the Chinese educational system in its cultural context, thus avoiding the pitfall of superimposing Western theoretical assumptions and biases on Chinese data. Part I of the work details Chinese educational philosophy, the organization of the educational institutions, and the economic and social infrastructure established since 1949. Part II analyses the educational developments from the Great Leap Forward to the eve of the Cultural Revolution. The interaction between ideology, objective conditions, and power politics at both decision-making and implementation levels is discussed in detail, as are their various roles in shaping educational policy, and, consequently, the lives of the children concerned.
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The Great Leap Forward, 1957-1965
Surveys the Most Tumultuous Periods in China's Modern History A detailed chronicle of an era of chaos and political turbulence, The Political and Economic History of China (1949-1976) is a must-read book for anyone interested in the history of modern China. This series, in three volumes, covers the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Golden Age of Industrialization, and the other important events that shaped China. The incidents in this series are the ones which laid the groundwork for the subsequent 30 years of reforms in China and which have influenced the latest ideological and policy developments, such as President Xi's recent series of reforms. Written by Hu Angang of Tsinghua University. He is the director of the National Research Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China's most prominent political think-tank. Volume 2 presents: 1. The Maoist Nation-Building Model: New Democracy; 2. The First Golden Age of China's Industrialization; 3. Collectivization and Nationalization in China; 4. Rise and Fall of the Great Leap Forward; 5. Lushan Conference and the Seven-Thousand Cadres Conference.
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The political and economic history of China, 1949-1976
This is a must-read book to the study of China's modern history from 1949-1976, covering the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Golden Age of Industrialization. It presents the context for the following 30 years of reforms in China, as well as President Xi's latest series of reforms. The historical incidents covered in this series are the ones which continue to influence the ideological and policy developments of China today and they will shape its future. Professor Hu Angang, prominent Tsinghua University economics professor and the leading \"New Leftist\" academic, offers his compelling insights into these decades of chaos and political turbulence in China.
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Mao and the economic stalinization of China, 1948-1953
In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li tackles one of the most important unresolved mysteries of the early history of the People's Republic of China_the economic policy shift of 1953.
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Agricultural Reform and Rural Transformation in China since 1949
The theme of the second volume of History of Contemporary China is agricultural reform and rural development. Featured articles offer both empirical account and theoretical analysis of a broad range of historical events and issues in this area. These studies shed light on the historical origins of some of the agricultural and rural problems in China today.
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