Isbn: 9780195031348 - china without mao: search for a new order (galaxy books) (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. first printing stated, VG+ SC minor show of wear only.

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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. xii, 212 pp. Third printing. Previous owner name on the half-title page.

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 212 pages. Cover creased. Text tanned. Name on ffep.Now available in a new, updated edition, this groundbreaking book on post-Mao China, written by the distinguished Asian scholar Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, explores t he astonishing transformation that has occurred there. Since Mao Zedong's death in 1976, China's leaders have launched an ambitious modernization program aimed at making their nation a relatively prosperous socialist state by the year 2000. Along with the first edition's examination of the smashing of the Gang of Four, the evolution of a new order under Deng Xiaoping, the manner and costs of modern ization, the normalization of relations with the United States, and the prospect s for reunification with Taiwan, the second edition offers an insider's view int o China's policies of accelerated economic development and opening to the outsid e world, adopted at a December 1978 party conference. Focusing on the cultural i mpact of these policies, Hsu candidly reveals both the improved standard of livi ng and the serious fundamental problems--including high inflation, widespread co rruption, crises in leadership, loss of faith in communism, and especially the r ecent student protests--resulting from these recent developments. The new editio n also includes a postscript which takes into account the causes and consequence s of the Tian An Men Square massacre in June of 1989.…