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1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations |
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880-01 Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby -- Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh -- Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese] -- Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese] -- China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross -- The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut -- Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman -- "Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder -- Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese] -- Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe -- "Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn -- A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll -- Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi -- Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman -- Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu -- Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai -- Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins -- Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte -- The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian -- Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu -- The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek -- The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung -- Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi -- The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen -- National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott -- Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik |
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880-01/$1 1. The Foundations of Communist Rule in China: The Coercive Dimension -- 2. 毛泽东与整 反右 动的缘 Mao Zedong and the Origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectifi cation Campaign -- 3. 社会主义在中国的理想、尝 与异化 -- 基于唯物史 的一点 察 Ideal, Effort, and Alienation of Socialism in China: An Exploration from a Materialistic View of History -- 4. China's Three Rises, Regional Power Transitions, and East Asian Security: 1949 to the Twenty-First Century -- 5. The People's Republic of China at Sixty: Is It Rising-- 6. Why China Gets a "Rise" Out of Us: Ruminations on PRC Foreign Relations -- SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- 7. "Sixty Is the New Forty" (Or Is It): Reflections on the Health of the Chinese Body Politic -- 8. Popular Protest and Party Rule: China's Evolving Polity -- 9. 农业、 口与外交 中国党的 导与群众意愿互动关系的三 个案研究 Agriculture, Imports, and Diplomacy: Three Case Studies on the Interaction between Chinese Party Rule and Popular Will |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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A collection of papers originally presented at "The People's Republic of China at 60: an international assessment," a conference held at Harvard University by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies during the Spring of 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English and Chinese |
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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China -- Politics and government -- 2002- -- Congresses
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China -- Social conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses
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China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses
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China -- History -- 1949- -- Congresses
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China
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China.
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Kina -- politik och förvaltning -- konferenser.
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Kina -- sociala förhållanden -- konferenser.
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Kina -- ekonomiska förhållanden -- konferenser.
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Kina -- historia -- konferenser.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kirby, William C., editor.
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| LC no. |
2010053900 |
| ISBN |
9781684171217 |
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1684171210 |
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