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1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) |
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The early years of the People's Republic of China : an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz -- Part I. Urban takeover. "Clean-up" : the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon -- Part II. Occupying the periphery. From resisting communists to resisting America : civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown -- The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian -- Big brother is watching : local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess -- The call of the oases : the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao -- Part III. The culture of accommodation. The crocodile bird : Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link -- "The very first lesson" : teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- Acting like revolutionaries : Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz -- Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler -- Part IV. Family strategies. The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick -- Birthing stories : rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter -- Capitalists choosing communist China : the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman Cochran |
| Analysis |
China |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-443) and index |
| Notes |
Jeremy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego and inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Modern Chinese History Endowed Chair |
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| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024122
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Jeremy, 1976- editor.
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Pickowicz, Paul, editor
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| ISBN |
9780674033658 |
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0674033655 |
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0674047028 |
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9780674047020 |
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