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Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China
Title
Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China / edited by Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz.
ISBN
9780674026162 (alk. paper)
0674026160 (alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xii, 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Variant and related titles
Early years of the People's Republic of China
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 19, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-443) and index.
Contents
The early years of the People's Republic of China: an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz
Part I: Urban takeover
"Clean-up": the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth Perry
New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon
Part II: Occupying the periphery
From resisting communists to resisting America: civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown
The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian
Big brother is watching: local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess
The call of the oases: the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao
Part III: The culture of accommodation
The crocodile bird: Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link
"The very first lesson": teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer
Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz
Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler
Part IV: Family strategies
The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick
Birthing stories: rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter
Capitalists choosing communist China: the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman Cochran.
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