Dilemmas of victory the early years of the People's Republic of China /

Dilemmas of victory the early years of the People's Republic of China / edited by Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 462 pages)

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The early years of the People's Republic of China: an introduction -- Part I. Urban Takeover. "Cleanup": the new order in Shanghai -- Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic -- New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai -- Part II. Occupying the periphery. From resisting Communists to resisting America: civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 -- The Chinese Communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 -- Big brother is watching: local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of New Dalian, 1945-55 -- The call of the oases: the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 -- Part III. The culture of accommodatioin. The crocodile bird: Xiangsheng in the early 1950s -- "The very first lesson": teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 -- Creating "new China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 -- Part IV. Family strategies. The Ye family in new China -- Birthing stories: rural midwives in 1950s China -- Capitalists choosing Communist China: the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56.



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