The internal politics of China, 1949-1972.
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[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Reconstruction 1949-1957
- I. The Chinese communists win power
- II. The establishment of the governmental system: The provisional government of 1949 ; Regional administration and the influence of the PLA ; The constitution of 1954 ; The CCP and the non-Communist United Front parties, 1949-1957
- III. The road to a socialist society: The system of mass movements ; The land reform movement, 1950-1953 ; Marriage reform, 1950-1952 ; Collectivisation and socialisaton
- IV. Control and opposition, 1949-1957: Instruments of control ; Methods of control ; The "campaign against counter-revolutionaries," 1951-1952 ; The case of Kao Kang and Jao Shu-shih ; The purge of the intellectuals ; Détente - the Eighth Party Congress of the CCP, 1956 ; The "Hundred Flowers Movement," 1957
- V. The CCP at the crossroads, 1957: The party hits back ; Reconstruction and development of the national economy ; Soviet model or "independent path" ; Mao Tse-tung's decision
- Part Two: Experiment 1957-1965
- VI. The "anti-rightist campaign" 1957-1958 ; The disciplining of the non-Communist United Front parties ; Purges among the intellectuals and in the CCP ; Disputes over a new general line ; Mao-Tse-tung prevails - the Second Plenum of the Eighth Party Congress
- VII. "Three Red Banners": The "general line" ; The "great leap" ; The people's communes movement ; The road to economic crisis
- VIII. Opposition and "readjustment": The Wuhan Plenum, December 1958 ; The situation in Spring, 1959 ; The case of P'eng Te-huai and the Lushan decisions ; "Three bitter years" ; The retreat from the people's communes
- IX. The road to the "cultural revolution": The "Small Hundred Flowers," 1960-1962 ; Liu Shao-ch'i's programme ; The indoctrination of the military forces 1960-1965 ; Mao's first counter-attack: the Tenth Plenum, September 1962 ; The conflict over the "Socialist Education Movement" ; The offensive of the "new right"
- Part Three: Crisis 1965-1972
- X. The early phase of the "cultural revolution": Two centres: Peking and Shanghai ; The purge of Lo Jui-ch'ing ; The "February Report" and the Shanghai protocol ; The overthrow of P'eng Chen ; The struggle for the schools ; The military putsch in Peking and the Eleventh Plenum
- XI. The offensive of the left: The "Red Guards" ; Resistance in the centre ; The victory of the left in the centre ; The "storm in January"
- XII. Resistance and military intervention: Strikes and unrest, January 1967 ; The call for the gun and the response of the PLA ; The second offensive of the left ; The Wuhan Incident ; Armed clashes
- XIII.The change of course: The failure of the leftist attack ; The compromise with the regional commanders ; The turn against the left ; The overthrow of Yang Ch'eng-wu ; The end of the Red Guard movement
- XIV. The stabilisation of government: The revolutionary committees ; The Ninth Party Congress of the CCP, 1969 ; The new leadership group - a coalition ; The results of the "cultural revolution"
- XV. Achievements and perspectives: Phases and turning-points in the development of internal politics since 1949 ; The "balance sheet" of the development policy ; Changes in the ruling agencies ; Perspectives.