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A Chronicle of the Economic and Political History of Modern China

KEY FEATURES

Traces the prolonged transformation of modern China from 1949–1976, including the foundation of the People’s Republic of China up to the end of the Cultural Revolution
Provides rich details on China’s economic growth pattern, processes of industrialization, and China's unique five-year plan system, and elaborates on China’s political life with penetrating analysis of profound historical events
Delivers a detailed overview of the historywhich lead to China’s current unprecedented upsurge

CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS

Volume 3 The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

Chapter I: The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)

Power Struggles Raged Between Mao Zedong and Lin Biao
The “Red Guards”, “Tiananmen Incident” and Deng Xiaoping’s “Overall Rectification”

Chapter II: On the Evaluation of Mao Zedong’s Merits and Demerits

AUTHOR

Hu Angang is a Professor in the School of Public Policy & Management at Tsinghua Univeristy, Director of the Center for China Study at Tsinghua-CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Japan's Keio University, and was a Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He is one of the leaders in the field of China Studies, and has published 40 books and nearly 200 articles in the core periodicals and key academic magazines in China.

READERSHIP

Researchers, academics, professionals, students, policy-makers and the general public interested or engaged in China’s economic and political history

Frequently Bought Together:

Vol. 1 The Early Stage of People’s Republic of China (1949-1956)

Vol. 2 From Great Leap Forward to Reconstructing the Economy (1957-1965)

The Political and Economic History of China Vol. 1-3 Set