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Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China / edited by Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674026162 (alk. paper)
  • 0674026160 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Early years of the People's Republic of China
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS777.55 .D527 2007
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-443) and index.

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.