Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition. Maurice Meisner

Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition


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On the other side, Mao As the CR wore on, a third grouping emerged alongside them. HK Dockworkers' Strike Enters Third Week, Attracts Widespread Support (2). The average university student at this point is the child of people born after 1966. 5 Media commentators, establishment politicians and representatives of the publishers lined up to say the book would completely change the way in which people think of Mao, and indeed change history. For example, it is claimed by many who have studied figures released by Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death that per capita grain production did not increase at all during the Mao period (6). Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic by Maurice Meisner is a history of China from 1949 through the 1990s. On one side was that of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, who in the early 1960s had emphasized the economic development of China and were willing to countenance at least short-term inequalities between the elite and the masses. Dittmer finds the 'cumulative picture' of Chang and Halliday's chapters on the People's Republic of China (PRC) before the Cultural Revolution convincing and even devastating. This is the third edition which has corrections and has been expanded. In 1981 she co-wrote an article where she described the People's Republic of China as a 'super-achiever' in terms of mortality reduction, with life expectancy increasing by approximately 1.5 years per calendar year since the start of communist rule in 1949 (2). [1] Maurice Meisner, Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, 3rd ed. Called “ultra-leftists” by their ..