Full name: Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic

Author: Maurice Meisner Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684856353 0684856352

In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is known for, Meisner moves far beyond his previous work to paint a never-before-seen portrait of the political and social realities of China on the brink of the millennium, and the global implications of its rise to economic and political power. Similar books: Treason by the Book by Jonathan D. Spence The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence China by John King Fairbank Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad The Great Wall by John Man The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985 by John King Fairbank The Long March by Sun Shuyun China by John Keay The Opium War by Julia Lovell The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors by Ann Paludan God's Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence China by Edward L. Shaughnessy A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer