Contemporary China : 1949 to the present / Gilles Guiheux ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Provides a history of China since 1949, drawing on extensive research to describe and explain the key developments and to dispel the many myths and misconceptions surrounding this twenty-first-century superpower. In contrast to many commentators who overstate the novelty of the Communist regime, Gui...
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| Other title: | République populaire de Chine. English Contemporary China : nineteen forty-nine to the present |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ :
Polity,
[2023]
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| Edition: | English edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter one. Establishment of a new regime (1949-1957). Building a new state: Achieving unity ; Administration of the territories ; The strategy of New Democracy (1949-53) ; New institutions (1954)
- Society is brought into line: The marriage law (May 1950) ; Agrarian reform
- Campaign for the repression of counter-revolutionaries (February 1951) ; The Three-anti Campaign (December 1951) and the Five-anti Campaign (April 1952) ; Bringing intellectual to heel
- Forging links with the socialist camp: The Sino-Soviet alliance ; The Korean War ; An orthodox economic policy ; The Eighth Party Congress (1956)
- Chapter two. Maoism and its excesses (1958-1976). The Great Leap Forward (1958-1976): Origins of the Great Leap Forward ; Successive stages of the Great Leap Forward
- The Great Famine (1959-61): Natural causes ; Human errors ; Political responsibilities
- Pragmatism and political division (1960-65): Mao's adjustment programme and political withdrawal ; Socialist Education Movement (1962-65) ; Maoization of the PLA and preparation for war
- The Cultural Revolution (1966-69): The beginnings (October 1965-July 1966) ; The mobilization of the Red Guards (August 1966-January 1967) ; Militarization in the face of revolutionary seizures of power (January-August 1967) ; The return to order (1967-1969): bringing the Red Guards to heel and the Ninth Congress ; Responsibilities and consequences
- The end of Maoism and the crises of succession (1969-1976): The Lin Biao era (1969-1971) ; The elimination of Lin Biao in September 1971 ; The end of Maoism (1972-1976)
- Chapter three. Giving priority to economic modernization (1976-1992). The Hua Guofeng transition (September 1976-December 1978): The conflict between the newly promoted and the veterans ; A veteran to embody renewal
- The first reforms (1979-86): Deng Xiaoping comes to power ; Rehabilitation of the law ; The acceleration of reforms (1984-86)
- The failure of Zhao Ziyang and regime crisis (1986-89): Aborted political reform ; The reimposition of dictatorship
- Chapter four. Building a new model (after 1992). The Jiang Zemin decade: authoritarian, conservative and pragmatic leadership (1989-2002): An engineer in power ; The rise of nationalism ; Jiang Zemin's consolidation of power ; Jiang Zemin's initiatives
- The Hu Jintao - Wen Jiabao Era (2002-2012): a lost decade?: Populist leaders ; Crises in Tibet and Sichuan in 2008 ; Two 'campaigns of mass distraction'
- The fifth generation of leaders in power (after 2012): Change of political personnel ; Xi Jinping, a 'prince' of power ; Internal authoritarianism ; Expansionism abroad
- Chapter five. Forms of government: from arbitrary rule to the aborted attempt at institutionalization. The Communist Party: organization, ideology, adaptation: Party organization ; Party members ; Ideology ; Five generations of leaders
- The state apparatus: a democratic façade: Executive power ; Elected assemblies ; A 'state of laws without a rule of law' ; The army in the political system
- The Party-State and society: control, participation, resistance: A triple system of repression, confinement and surveillance ; Social coalitions supporting the regime ; Opponents without opposition ; Public space and civil society
- Chapter six. The creation of wealth: from planned economy to the market. The socialist cycle: The place of inheritance ; The socialist planned economy ; The Great Leap Forward ; Assessment of the Maoist period
- The reform cycle: The decollectivization of the countryside ; Business reform ; Lift-off (1984-88) ; The end of the reforms (1989-93) ; The move towards a market economy (1993-2003) ; The Hu Jintao/Wen Jiabao administration: a new activism ; The economic policy of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang ; An assessment of the structural transformations
- The Chinese market economy: Diversification of economic actors ; Transformation of the economic role of the state ; Restructuring the administration of the economy ; State weakness ; Internalization of the economy ; International trade
- Chapter seven. Society on the move: mobility and inequality. Maoist China: from movement to immobilization (1949-78): Establishment of the hukou system ; Labelling of the population ; A nomenklatura: a privileged caste ; Political mobility
- Society of the move again (after 1979): The winners ; The old working class and new urban poverty ; the new working class: migrant workers
- The debate about inequality: A diverse social space ; A political project: construction of the middle classes ; Social divide hypothesis ; Latin Americanization as a possible scenario
- Chapter eight. The towns versus the countryside. The broken promises of the peasant revolution: Maoism sacrifices the peasants ; building a working class ; The non-development of cities
- The urban miracle: urbanization without revolution: Urban growth: a political choice ; Improving housing condition ; New urban governance
- New rural issues: The 'three nong' ; Collective action in the countryside ; New rural policies
- Chapter nine. Populations: the modernization of society. Counting the population, controlling the population, controlling the demographics: Demographic transition ; The pragmatism of Maoist population policies ; The one-child policy ; Harmful consequences of the one-child policy
- Protecting the population: social policies: The Maoist period: protection for those who work ; The state's withdrawal after 1978 ; Reconstruction of a welfare system
- The private and intimate sphere: The family ; Forms of sexuality: a liberation? ; Homosexuality is now tolerated ; Persistent gender inequalities
- The individualization of society: The choice of spouse: a freely chosen alliance between two families ; Self-interest ; Reconfiguration of the religious domain
- Chapter ten. Education and culture. Education and science: Priority given to the early years (1949-76): The massification, marketization and internalization of higher education since 1979 ; Persistent problems: selectivity, inequality ; The professionalization and internationalization of scientific activity since 1979
- Culture and creation: Culture at the service of the political project (1949-79) ; A decade of experiments (1979-89) ; Culture opens up to the market ; Cultural policies: the case of museums.