The time period in
China
from the
founding of the People's Republic
in 1949 until
Mao's death
in 1976 is commonly known as
Maoist China
and
Red China
.
[4]
The
history of the People's Republic of China
is often divided distinctly by historians into the
Mao era
and the
post-Mao era
. The country's Mao era lasted from the founding of the
People's republic
on 1 October 1949
[5]
[6]
to
Deng Xiaoping
's consolidation of power and policy reversal at the
Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress
on 22 December 1978. The Mao era focuses on
Mao Zedong
's social movements from the early 1950s on, including
land reform
, the
Great Leap Forward
and the
Cultural Revolution
.
[7]
[8]
The
Great Chinese Famine
, one of the worst famines in human history,
[9]
[10]
[11]
occurred during this era.
1949: Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
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]
On September 29, 1949, the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
unanimously adopted the
Common Program
as the basic political program for the country following the success of the
Chinese revolution
.
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: 25
The founding of the
People's Republic of China
(PRC) was formally proclaimed by
Mao Zedong
, the
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
, on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in
Tiananmen Square
in
Beijing
. The establishment of the
Central People's Government of the PRC
, the government of the new nation, was officially declared during the proclamation speech at the founding ceremony.
[13]
A
military parade
took place during the foundation ceremony.
Early 1950s: Social revolution
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]
The People's Republic of China was founded on a land that was ravaged by a
century of foreign invasion and civil wars
. Both urban and rural communities, as well as both agriculture and industry, experienced significant growth between 1949 and 1959.
[14]
Mao's government carried out
land reform
,
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: 554?556
instituted
collectivisation
[16]
: 51?52
and implemented the
laogai
camp system.
[17]
Economically, the country followed up on the Soviet model of
five-year plans
with its own first
five-year plan
from 1953 to 1957.
[18]
The country went through a transformation whereby means of production were transferred from private to public entities, and through
nationalization
of industry in 1955, the state controlled the
economy
in a similar fashion to the
economy of the Soviet Union
.
Korean War
[
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]
China's role in the Korean war has been evaluated by each participant in sharply different ways.
[19]
Soon after its founding, the newly born People's Republic of China was drawn into its first international conflict. On June 25, 1950,
Kim Il Sung
's
North Korean
forces crossed the
38th parallel
,
[20]
invaded
South Korea
, and eventually advanced as far as the
Pusan Perimeter
in south-east Korea.
United Nations
forces entered the war on side of the South, and American General
Douglas MacArthur
, having forced a Communist retreat, proposed to end the war by Christmas 1950. The
Soviet Union
and China saw a UN (and consequently, American) victory as a major political victory to the United States, a prospect seen as dangerous in the beginnings of the
Cold War
. However, Stalin had no desire to go to war with the United States, and left China the responsibility of saving the regime in
Pyongyang
.
[21]
Up to this time, the Truman Administration was thoroughly disgusted with the corruption of
Chiang Kai-shek
's government and considered simply recognizing the PRC. On June 27, the US 7th Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Straits both to prevent a Communist invasion of the island and to prevent an attempted reconquest of the mainland. China meanwhile warned that it would not accept a US-backed Korea on its border. After the UN forces liberated
Seoul
in September, Beijing countered by saying that ROK troops could cross into North Korea, but not American ones. MacArthur ignored this, believing that the South Korean army was too weak to attack on its own. After Pyongyang fell in October, the UN troops approached the strategically sensitive Yalu River area. China responded by sending waves of troops south, in what became known as the People's Volunteers in order to disassociate them from the PLA. The Chinese army was poorly equipped but contained many veterans of the civil war and the conflict with Japan. In addition, it possessed huge reserves of manpower.
The United States was on its way to the height of military power, and historians contend that Mao's participation in the war asserted China as a new power to not be taken lightly. Known as the
Resist America, Aid Korea
Campaign in China, the first major offensive of the Chinese forces was pushed back in October, but by Christmas 1950, the "
People's Volunteer Army
" under the command of Gen.
Peng Dehuai
had forced the United Nations to retreat back to the 38th Parallel. However, the war was very costly to the Chinese side, as more than just "volunteers" were mobilised, and because of the lack of experience in modern warfare and the lack of modern military technology, China's casualties vastly outnumbered that of the United Nations. On 11 April 1951, a
U.S. Seventh Fleet
destroyer approached close to the port of
Swatow (Shantou)
, on the southeast coast of China, provoking China to send an armada of more than forty armed powered junks to confront and surround the destroyer for nearly five hours before the destroyer departed the area without either side widening the conflict by initiating hostile fire.
[22]
[23]
[24]
Declining a UN armistice, the two sides fought intermittently on both sides of the 38th Parallel until the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. The Korean War ended any possibility of normalised relations with the United States for years. Meanwhile, Chinese forces invaded and annexed Tibet in October 1950. Tibet had been nominally subject to the Chinese emperors in past centuries, but declared its independence in 1912.
Under Mao's direction, China built its first
atomic bomb
in its nuclear program,
Project 596
, testing it on October 16, 1964, at
Lop Nor
;
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: 74
[26]
: 573
it was the fifth country to conduct a successful nuclear test.
1953?1957
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]
The Korean War had been enormously costly to China, especially coming on the heels of the civil war, and it delayed postwar reconstruction. In 1949, Mao Zedong declared that the nation would "
lean to one side
",
[27]
meaning that the Soviet Union and the communist bloc would be its principal allies.
[28]
Three months after the PRC was established in October 1949, Mao and his delegation traveled to Moscow. They were not received warmly by
Stalin
, who doubted if they really were Marxist-Leninists and not simply a group of Chinese nationalists. He had also recognized Chiang Kai-Shek's government, and furthermore distrusted any communist movement that was not under his direct control. After a meeting with Mao, the Soviet leader remarked "What sort of a man is Mao? He seems to have some idea of revolution involving the peasants, but not the workers." Eventually, a frustrated Mao was ready to go home, but
Zhou Enlai
refused to leave without a formal agreement. Thus, the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Friendship was signed and the Chinese at last departed in February 1950.
According to Hua-yu Li, writing in
Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948?1953
in 1953, Mao, misled by glowing reports in
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik): Short Course
, authorized by Stalin of social and economic progress in the Soviet Union, abandoned the liberal economic programs of "New Democracy" and instituted the "general line for socialist transition", a program to build socialism based on Soviet models. He was reportedly moved in part by personal and national rivalry with Stalin and the Soviet Union.
[29]
[30]
The Soviet Union provided considerable economic aid and training during the 1950s. Many Chinese students were sent to study in Moscow. Factories and other infrastructure projects were all based on Soviet designs, for China was an agrarian country with little established industry. In 1953, Mao Zedong told the Indonesian ambassador that they had little to export except agricultural products. Several jointly owned Sino-Soviet corporations were established, but Mao considered these to impinge on Chinese sovereignty and in 1954 they were quietly dissolved.
By 1956, Mao was becoming bored with the day-to-day running of the state and also worried about growing red tape and bureaucracy. The 8th Party Congress that year declared that socialism had more-or-less been established and so the next few years would be devoted to rest and consolidation.
In February 1957, Mao gave one of his most famous addresses in which he said, "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." The
Hundred Flowers Campaign
was promoted by the CCP as a way of furthering socialist ideology through open debate, but many took it as an invitation to express open disdain for the Communist Party. Many began to voice their opposition to the Party-State's rule. Thoroughly shocked, Mao put an end to this and then launched the
Anti-Rightist Campaign
. Scores of intellectuals and common workers were purged, jailed, or
disappeared
. Many were not "
rehabilitated
" until the 1970s.
Great Leap Forward
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]
Mao's social and cultural programs, including
collectivization
, were most popular in the early 1950s. However, China's strained relations with new Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev
and newfound contradictions between the Chinese and Soviet schools of
communism
seeded a novel and radical drive to reform China's economic system in its entirety. This split developed after Stalin's death in 1953 when new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced him. The "secret speech" in 1956 stunned the communist world. China rejected de-Stalinization and in fact displayed large Stalin portraits at the May Day celebrations that year. Mao declared that despite some faults, Stalin had basically been a good, well-meaning Marxist. He felt that the Soviets were not treating China as an equal partner. Cultural differences also contributed to friction between the two communist giants. Khrushchev's idea of peaceful competition with the United States rather than overt hostility did not resonate well with Beijing. Mao said that "Do you think the capitalists will put down their butcher knife and become Buddhas?"
Khrushchev's 1958 suggestion of a joint Sino-Soviet fleet to counter the US 7th Fleet was angrily rejected by Mao Zedong, who told the Soviet ambassador "If you want to talk about joint cooperation, fine. We can practice joint cooperation in government, military, cultural, and economic matters and you can leave us with a guerrilla force." When the Soviet premier himself visited China the following year, Mao again asked him to explain what a joint fleet was. He stated that the Soviets were not welcome to put any troops on Chinese soil in peacetime and added "Listen carefully. We have worked long and hard to drive out the Americans, the British, the Japanese, and others. Never again will we allow foreigners to use our territory for their purposes." Khrushchev also thought that the Chinese were too soft on the
Dalai Lama
(Tibet's spiritual leader) and failed to support them in a border dispute with India, saying that the territory in question was "just a frozen waste where nobody lives."
Leading into the Great Leap Forward, China experienced a population boom that strained its food supply, despite rising agricultural yields.
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: 81
Increased yields could not keep pace a population that benefitted from a major decrease in mortality (due to successful public health campaigns and the end of war) and high fertility rate.
[31]
: 81
The Chinese government recognized the country's dilemma of feeding its rapidly growing population without the means to make significant capital improvements in agriculture.
[31]
: 82
Viewing human labor as an underutilized
factor of production
, the government intensified the mobilization of masses of people to increase labor inputs in agriculture.
[31]
: 82
Under Mao's leadership, China
broke with the Soviet model
and announced a new economic program, the "
Great Leap Forward
", in 1958, aimed at rapidly raising industrial and agricultural production. Specific to industrial production, Mao announced the goal of surpassing the steel production output of
Great Britain
by 1968. Giant cooperatives, otherwise known as
people's communes
, were formed. Within a year almost all Chinese villages had been reformed into working communes of several thousand people in size, where people would live and work together as envisioned by an ideal communist society. Rather than build steel mills, small "backyard furnaces" would be used.
The results, however, were
disastrous
. Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and people exhausted themselves producing shoddy, unsellable goods. Because of the reliance on the government providing and distributing food and resources and their rapid depletion due to poor planning, starvation appeared even in fertile agricultural areas. From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward, political movements incited by the government, as well as unusual weather patterns and natural disasters resulted in
widespread famine
and many deaths. A significant number of the deaths were not from famine but were killed or overworked by the authorities. According to various sources, the resulting death toll was likely between 20 and 40 million. The steel produced in backyard furnaces at low temperatures proved to be useless. Finally, the peasants hated the lack of privacy and the militarization of their lives.
One of the loudest opponents of the GLF was Defense Minister
Peng Dehuai
. Peng was a believer in orthodox Soviet-style economic planning and totally against experimentations. Several years earlier, he had been instrumental in trying to develop the PLA into a well-equipped, professional fighting force, as opposed to Mao's belief that soldiers who were revolutionary enough could overcome any obstacle. The army had had no ranks during the civil war and Korea. This system worked rather poorly in those conflicts, and so a rank system (modeled after the Soviet one) was implemented in 1954.
While taking a trip through the countryside, Peng was horrified at the wreckage of the Great Leap Forward. Everywhere fields were dotted with abandoned communes, ruined crops, and lumps of useless pig iron. Afterwards, he accused Mao of being responsible for this disaster and was in turn denounced as a rightist and removed from office. Peng then lived retired in disgrace for the next several years until he was arrested and beaten by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. He survived the torture, but sustained permanent injuries and died in 1974. After Mao's death, Peng was posthumously rehabilitated with full honors.
The already strained Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorated sharply in 1959, when the Soviets started to restrict the flow of scientific and technological information to China. The dispute escalated, and the Soviets withdrew all of their personnel from China by August 1960, leaving many construction projects dormant. In the same year, the Soviets and the Chinese began to have disputes openly in international forums. The relationship between the two powers reached a low point in 1969 with the
Sino-Soviet border conflict
, when Soviet and Chinese troops met in combat on the
Manchurian
border.
Third Front
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After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, China's leadership slowed the pace of industrialization.
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: 3
It invested more on in China's coastal regions and focused on the production of consumer goods.
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: 3
After an April 1964 General Staff report concluded that the concentration of China's industry in its major coastal cities made it vulnerable to attack by foreign powers, Mao argued for the development of basic industry and national defense industry in protected locations in China's interior.
[32]
: 4, 54
This resulted in the building of the Third Front, which involved massive projects including railroad infrastructure,
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: 153?164
aerospace industry including satellite launch facilities,
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: 218?219
and steel production industry including
Panzhihua Iron and Steel
.
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: 9
Development of the Third Front slowed in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, but accelerated again after the Sino-Soviet border conflict at Zhenbao Island, which increased the perceived risk of Soviet Invasion.
[32]
: 12, 150
Third Front construction again decreased after United States President
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China
and the resulting rapprochement between the United States and China.
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: 225?229
When Reform and Opening up began after Mao's death, China began to gradually wind down Third Front projects.
[33]
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The Third Front distributed physical and human capital around the country, ultimately decreased regional disparities and created favorable conditions for later market development.
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: 177?182
Cultural Revolution
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]
The
Cultural Revolution
, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a
sociopolitical movement
in the
People's Republic of China
(PRC). It was launched by
Mao Zedong
in 1966 and lasted until
his death
in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve
Chinese communism
by purging remnants of
capitalist
and traditional elements from
Chinese society
. Though it failed to achieve its main objectives, the Cultural Revolution marked the effective return of Mao to the center of power in China after
his political sidelining
, in the aftermath of the
Great Leap Forward
and the
Great Chinese Famine
.
In May 1966, with the help of the
Cultural Revolution Group
, Mao launched the Revolution and said that
bourgeois elements
had infiltrated the government and society with the aim of restoring capitalism. Mao called on young people to
bombard the headquarters
, and proclaimed that "to rebel is justified". Mass upheaval began in
Beijing
with
Red August
in 1966. Many young people, mainly students, responded by forming
cadres
of
Red Guards
throughout the country. A selection of Mao's sayings were compiled into the
Little Red Book
, which became revered within
his cult of personality
. In 1967, emboldened radicals began
seizing power
from local governments and party branches, establishing new
revolutionary committees
in their place. These committees often split into rival factions, precipitating
armed clashes among the radicals
. After the
fall of Lin Biao
in 1971, the
Gang of Four
became influential in 1972, and the Revolution continued until Mao's death in 1976, soon followed by the arrest of the Gang of Four.
The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos across Chinese society, including
a massacre in Guangxi
that included acts of
cannibalism
, as well as massacres in Beijing,
Inner Mongolia
,
Guangdong
,
Yunnan
, and
Hunan
.
[34]
Estimates of the death toll vary widely, typically ranging from 1?2 million. Red Guards sought to destroy the
Four Olds
(old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits), which often took the form of destroying historical artifacts, cultural and religious sites, and targeting others deemed to be representative of the Four Olds. Tens of millions were persecuted, including senior officials: most notably, president
Liu Shaoqi
, as well as
Deng Xiaoping
,
Peng Dehuai
, and
He Long
. Millions were persecuted for being members of the
Five Black Categories
. Intellectuals and scientists were considered to be the
Stinking Old Ninth
, and many were persecuted. The country's schools and universities were closed, and the
National College Entrance Examination
were cancelled. Over 10 million
youth from urban areas
were relocated under the
Down to the Countryside Movement
policy.
In December 1978, Deng Xiaoping became the new
paramount leader of China
, replacing Mao's successor
Hua Guofeng
. Deng and his allies introduced the
Boluan Fanzheng
program and initiated
reforms and opening of China
, which gradually dismantled the ideology of Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the Communist Party publicly acknowledged numerous failures of the Cultural Revolution, declaring it "responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the people, the country, and the party since the founding of the People's Republic." Given its broad scope and social impact, memories and perspectives of the Cultural Revolution are varied and complex in contemporary China. It is often referred to as the "ten years of chaos" (
十年??
;
shi nian dongluan
) or "ten years of havoc" (十年浩劫;
shi nian haojie
).
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Urban?rural divide
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The urban?rural divide was the most important division in Maoist China when it came to the distribution of food, clothing, housing and health care.
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Rural status carried no entitlement to a state ration card, wages or social security. As a result, Maoist China is sometimes described as a dual society.
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: 24
The model of development in Mao's China was to develop
heavy industry
through the exploitation of the rural population. In order to minimize the cost of staple foods for the urban population, farmers were compelled to sell any agricultural surplus above a specified level to the state at artificially low prices.
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: 24
In some regions the state also ate into the rural grain supply, causing shortages for the locals.
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: 104
The rural population endured the worst of the
Great Leap Famine
in part because the state could seize as much grain as it needed, even under starvation conditions. The appropriated grain was largely used to feed the urban population, although some of it was exported.
[37]
: 135?136
The difference in treatment of urban and rural areas was a major push factor for internal migration, which lead to increased restrictions on mobility. The ways to acquire an urban
hukou
were limited, including serving in the
People's Liberation Army
, passing the national university entrance examination or being recruited by an urban work unit as a permanent worker.
[37]
: 25
Because of these restrictions, the rural proportion of the population was higher in 1978 than it had been in 1958.
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Mao Zedong's legacy
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The history of the People's Republic from 1949 to 1976 is accorded the name "Mao era"-China. A proper evaluation of the period is, in essence, an evaluation of Mao's legacy. Since Mao's death there has been generated a great deal of controversy about him amongst both historians and political analysts.
[39]
Mao's poor management of the food supply and overemphasis on village industry is often blamed for the millions of deaths by famine during the "Mao era". However, there were also positive changes as a result from his management. Before 1949, for instance, the illiteracy rate in Mainland China was 80%, and life expectancy was a meager 35 years. At his death, illiteracy had declined to less than 7%, and average life expectancy had increased by 30 years. In addition, China's population which had remained constant at 400,000,000 from the
Opium War
to the end of the
Civil War
, mushroomed more than 700,000,000 as of Mao's death. Under Mao's regime, some argue that China ended its "Century of Humiliation" and resumed its status as a major power on the international stage. Mao also industrialized China to a considerable extent and ensured China's sovereignty during his rule. In addition, Mao tried to abolish Confucianist and feudal norms.
[40]
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Birth and death rate in China
-
China's population growth
-
Life expectancy by world region
China's economy in 1976 was three times its 1949 size (but the size of the Chinese economy in 1949 was one-tenth of the size of the economy in 1936), and whilst Mao-era China acquired some of the attributes of a superpower such as: nuclear weapons and a space programme; the nation was still quite poor and backwards compared to the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, or Western Europe. Fairly significant economic growth in 1962?1966 was wiped out by the Cultural Revolution. Other critics of Mao fault him for not encouraging birth control and for creating an unnecessary demographic bump by encouraging the masses, "The more people, the more power", which later Chinese leaders forcibly responded to with the controversial
one-child policy
.
The ideology surrounding Mao's interpretation of
Marxism?Leninism
, also known as
Maoism
, was codified into China's Constitution as a guiding ideology. Internationally, it has influenced many communists around the world, including third world revolutionary movements such as
Cambodia
's
Khmer Rouge
,
Peru
's
Shining Path
and the revolutionary movement in
Nepal
. In practice,
Mao Zedong Thought
is defunct inside China aside from anecdotes about the CCP's legitimacy and China's revolutionary origins. Of those that remain, some regard the
Deng Xiaoping
reforms to be a betrayal of Mao's legacy.
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- Catchpole, Brian.
A map history of modern China
(1976), new maps and diagrams
- Cheng, Linsun (2009).
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China
. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Pub. Group.
ISBN
978-1933782683
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- Chesneaux, Jean et al.
China: The People's Republic, 1949?1976
(1977) by French scholars
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (2010).
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0521196208
.
- Fairbank, John King
and Goldman, Merle.
China: A New History.
2nd ed. Harvard U. Press, (2006). 640 pp.
excerpt
pp 343?471.
- Fenby, Jonathan
.
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 to the Present
(3rd ed. 2019) popular history.
- Garver, John W.
China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic
(2nd ed. 2018)
- Guillermaz, Jacques.
The Chinese Communist Party In Power, 1949?1976
(1977)
excerpt
- Hsu, Immanuel Chung-yueh.
The Rise of Modern China,
6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 1999). Detailed coverage of 1644?1999, in 1136 pp.
- Kissinger, Henry.
On China
(2011)
- Leung, Edwin Pak-wah.
Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839?1976
(1992)
online free to borrow
- Leung, Edwin Pak-wah.
Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary
(2002)
- Meisner, Maurice
.
Mao's China and After
: A history of the People's Republic
(Simon and Schuster, 1999).
- Meisner, Maurice.
Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait
(Polity, 2006).
- Perkins, Dorothy.
Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, Its History and Culture.
Facts on File, 1999. 662 pp.
- Price, Rohan B.E.
Resistance in Colonial and Communist China (1950?1963) Anatomy of a Riot
(Routledge, 2020).
- Rummel, Rudolph J.
China's bloody century: Genocide and mass murder since 1900
(Routledge, 2017).
- Salisbury, Harrison E.
The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng
(1993)
- Schoppa, R. Keith.
The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History.
Columbia U. Press, 2000. 356 pp.
- Short, Philip
(2001).
Mao: A Life
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Owl Books
.
ISBN
978-0805066388
.
- Spence, Jonathan D.
Mao Zedong
(1999) 214 pp
online free to borrow
- Spence, Jonathan D.
The Search for Modern China
(1999), 876 pp; survey from 1644 to 1990s
- Wang, Ke-wen, ed.
Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.
Garland, 1998. 442 pp.
- Zeng, Jinghan.
The Chinese Communist Party's capacity to rule: ideology, legitimacy and party cohesion.
(Springer, 2015).
Historiography
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- Harding, Harry. "The study of Chinese politics: toward a third generation of scholarship."
World Politics
36.2 (1984): 284?307.
- Wu, Guo. "Recalling bitterness: Historiography, memory, and myth in Maoist China."
Twentieth-Century China
39.3 (2014): 245?268.
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- Yu, Bin. "The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy: Problems and Prospect."
World Politics
46.2 (1994): 235?261.
- Zhang, Chunman. "Review Essay: How to Merge Western Theories and Chinese Indigenous Theories to Study Chinese Politics?."
Journal of Chinese Political Science
22.2 (2017): 283?294.
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