[ix], 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents
1. Introduction : the new 'new China' -- 2. Search for socialism : from liberation to Utopia -- 3. Mao Zedong versus the party : from cult to cultural revolution -- 4. The rebel alternative : from 1919 to the red guards -- 5. Second cultural revolution : the abortive great debate -- 6. Economics in command : the modernization of China -- 7. Peasant China transformed : the rise of rural enterprise -- 8. The growth of dissent : poets and democracy -- 9. The party under pressure : reform and reaction -- 10. The scholars speak out : humanism or bourgeois liberalism? -- 11. The door opens wide : China and the world economy -- 12. Tianammen Square, 1989 : turning-point for China -- 13. Into the new millennium : China transformed -- 14. China and the world : from Mao to market
Summary
"Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? This highly readable account, from Asia correspondent and China expert John Gittings, provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions for the world."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
China
Political change
Communism
Market forces
History, 1946-1999
History, 2000-
Overseas item
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages [331]-345
