Dilemmas of Victory – The Early Years of the Peoples Republic of China - Couverture souple

Brown, Jeremy; Esherick, Joseph W; Link, Perry; Schmalzer, Sigrid; Stiffler, Douglas A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674047028 ISBN 13 : 9780674047020

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Early Years of the People's Republic of China

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, "Dilemmas of Victory" seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometimes achieved a remarkably smooth takeover, yet at other times appeared shockingly incompetent. Shanghai and Beijing experienced it in ways that differed dramatically from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Dalian. Out of necessity, the new regime often showed restraint and flexibility, courting the influential and educated. Furthermore, many policies of the old Nationalist regime were quietly embraced by the new Communist rulers. Based on previously unseen archival documents as well as oral histories, these lively, readable essays provide the fullest picture to date of the early years of the People's Republic, which were far more pluralistic, diverse, and hopeful than the Maoist decades that followed.

Revue de presse :

The authors of the essays contained in this volume bring with them an extraordinarily wide range of different disciplinary and personal interests ranging from Chen Jian's political history of the takeover of Tibet, through Perry Link's literary analysis of comic skits, to Gail Hershatter's accounts of the changing lives of rural midwives...[It's] a fascinating read sparking a whole variety of new ways of looking at the 1949 revolution and the early People's Republic. -- Henrietta Harrison Chinese Historical Review 20090331 Taking advantage of access to new sources in Chinese and even U.S. archives, personal papers, and oral interviews with surviving individuals, these essays compel a reconsideration of the early communist period...Indispensible reading for understanding Chinese society and the nascent communist state in 1949-1953. --L. Teh Choice

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674047028
• ISBN 13: 9780674047020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 476