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001 2014037102
003 DLC
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008 150206s2015 maua b 001 0deng
010 $a 2014037102
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050 00 $aDS777.75$b.W343 2015
082 00 $a951.05$223
100 1 $aWalder, Andrew G.$q(Andrew George),$d1953-
245 10 $aChina under Mao :$ba revolution derailed /$cAndrew G. Walder.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2015.
300 $axiv, 413 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 377-398) and index.
505 0 $aFuneral -- 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.
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1949-1976.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yCultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
651 0 $aChina$xEconomic policy$y1949-1976.
600 10 $aMao, Zedong,$d1893-1976$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aMao, Zedong,$d1893-1976$xInfluence.
610 20 $aZhongguo gong chan dang$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCommunism$zChina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial problems$zChina$xHistory$y20th century.