The People's Republic of China at 60 : : An International Assessment / / Edited by William C. Kirby.

• Author: People's Republic of China at 60: an International Assessment Harvard University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kirby, William C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2011.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby -- Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh -- Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese] -- Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese] -- China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross -- The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut -- Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman -- "Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder -- Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese] -- Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe -- "Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn -- A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll -- Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi -- Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman -- Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu -- Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai -- Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins -- Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte -- The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian -- Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu -- The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek -- The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung -- Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi -- The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen -- National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott -- Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.