Karl / Chow / Dutton Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

A Concise History
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9302-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Describes Mao Zedongs life and thought in relation to the Chinese revolution and twentieth-century history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karl, Rebecca E.

Chow, Rey

Dutton, Michael

Harootunian, Harry

Morris, Rosalind C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. China in the World in Mao's Youth

2. From Liberal to Communist, 1912–1921

3. Toward the Peasant Revolution, 1921–1927

4. Establishing Revolutionary Bases: From Jinggangshan to Yan'an, 1928–1935

5. Yan'an, the War of Resistance against Japan, and Civil War, 1935–1949

6. Stabilizing Society and the Transition to Socialism, 1949–1957

7. Great Leap and Restoration, 1958–1965

8. The Cultural Revolution:Politics in Command, 1966–1969

9. The Cultural Revolution: Denouement and the Death of Mao, 1969–1976

10. Reform, Restoration, and the Repudiation of Maoism, 1976–present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.