Most observers hold a positive view of China's reform since 1978 but are critical of the
policies of the era of Mao Zedong, ignoring the inseparable connections between the two …

Ever since the death of Mao, China has undergone a transformation almost as radical as the
Communist Revolution that Mao instigated. This book tells the stories of the many difficult …

Since the death of Mao, China has entered a new period in its development. Turning away
from the all-encompassing emphasis on revolutionary struggle and ideological …

The impact of more than two decades of reform in China has become a familiar story, so
familiar in fact that it is easy to lose sight of how spectacular and sweeping the changes …

Chairman Mao Zedong died over forty years ago. In the four decades since, China has been
totally transformed into a country that Mao would not recognize. Unleashed by Deng …

Much of the biographical literature on Mao Zedong has concentrated on the originality of his
contribution to Marxist theory or on those environmental factors believed to have had a …

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.
Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the …

Gao Hua has written an important book that helps us to better understand the Yan'an
Rectification Movement, one of the most complicated political events in the history of the …

In an interview celebrating the centennial of Mao Zedong's birth, Chinese leader Bo Yibo
acknowledged that" how to evaluate Mao's thought and his historical position has been a …

The first quarter century of communist rule in China was dramatic and disastrous, the mark of
a po liti cal regime whose extremism created a distinctive epoch in the history of revolution …