Ebook: Dilemmas of victory : The Early Years of the People's Republic of China
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- City: Cambridge, Mass.
- Language: English
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"This work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and Read more...
The early years of the People's Republic of China : an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz --
pt. 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 J. Perry --
New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon --
pt. 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 --
pt. 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 --
pt. 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.