"China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members; and a socialist economy model…
Illustrations 1. Mao Zedong, Yan'an, 1937-1938 2. National Day parade, Mao images, Beijing, 1949 3. Land reform tribunal, Guangdong, 1952 4. Execution during land reform, Fukang, 1952 5. Mao and Khrushchev, Beijing, 1958 6. Socialist Education Movement denunciation meeting, 1965…
"China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members ; and a socialist economy mode…
"China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members; and a socialist economy model…
Based on an unusually broad and deep range of primary sources (including work diaries, interviews with key informants and military officers, and official and unofficial documents), this book systematically examines the structure of political conflict in China's the poor and rela…