Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China / / edited by Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Jeremy, 1976-; Pickowicz, Paul.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 462 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The early years of the People's Republic of China : an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz -- pt. I : Urban takeover -- "Clean-up" : the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon -- pt. II : Occupying the periphery -- From resisting communists to resisting America : civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown -- The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian -- Big brother is watching : local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess -- The call of the oases : the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao -- pt. III : The culture of accommodation -- The crocodile bird : Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link -- "The very first lesson" : teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- Acting like revolutionaries : Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz -- Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler -- pt. IV : Family strategies -- The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick -- Birthing stories : rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter -- Capitalists choosing communist China : the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman Cochran.