Routledge Library Editions: China Under Mao
About the Book Series
This 13-volume collection of previously out-of-print titles reissues some key works in the study of Mao Zedong’s huge influence on China – its politics, economics and development into the power that it is today. Foreign policy, the Cultural Revolution, the fate of opponents, Chinese Marxist thought – all are covered here, and more, in this essential reference resource.
Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregor Benton
March 09, 2020
This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the Republic. Between 1915 and 1919, he had led the New ...
China Since the 'Gang of Four'
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Brugger
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the ‘Gang of Four’. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and abandoning Mao’s policies? Was China’s leadership remaining loyal to Mao’s strategy but correcting damage ...
China: Liberation and Transformation 1942-1962
1st Edition
By Bill Brugger
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1981, is a study concerned with the leadership and the people of China during the 1942-1962 period. It analyses the attempt made by the CCP to develop new policies of administration in the wartime base areas and the subsequent transformation of these policies after the...
Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978-84: Essays on Epistemology, Ideology and Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Brugger
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country’s leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory. It considers the problems that Chinese Marxist intellectuals were ...
Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Bill Brugger
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1977, sets out two models of administration and participation used in Communist China, one worked out by the CCP during the war against Japan and one imported from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. These models have given rise to different policy positions, studied here, ...
Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People
1st Edition
By Roger Howard
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people. The author makes extensive use of a number of interviews with a cross-section of Chinese people, as well as examining the written records made by foreign visitors....
Mao's Prey: The History of Chen Renbing, Liberal Intelletual
1st Edition
By Jeannette F. Ford
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 2001, uses key oral histories to confirm and explain the professional and private lives of post-1949 Chinese intellectuals through the focal point of Chen Renbing, a man personally criticised by Mao Zedong. Intellectuals have faced unique perils in modern Chinese ...
Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists
1st Edition
By J.A. Fyfield
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1982, is an in-depth study of the process of ‘re-education’ undergone by those who had opposed the Communist revolution in China. Told at first hand by several men who had occupied military or government positions of influence, it records their long years in prison and...
Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Baum
March 09, 2020
The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in 1991, presents essays that explore the political and economic reform policies that emerged in post-Mao China under Deng...
The China Factor: Peking and the Superpowers
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Segal
March 09, 2020
The purpose of this book, first published in 1982, is to analyse certain crucial aspects of the great power triangle in order to establish a more complete picture of the role of China in the superpower balance. These essays examine the key political, economic and military issues involved in the ...
The Chinese Economic Reforms
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephan Feuchtwang, Athar Hussain
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1983, examines the significant economic reforms undergone by China following the death of Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four. It looks at Chinese economists’ conceptions of the necessity for change and compares China’s reforms with similar ones carried out by the...
The Cultural Revolution in China: An Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By James C.F. Wang
March 09, 2020
The Cultural Revolution in China generated a cascade of commentaries and interpretations on the development and meaning of the upheaval. Many students and researchers have found it difficult to locate and identify literature on the period. This bibliography, first published in 1976, corrects this ...