This book is a comprehensive analysis of the revolutionary history of China, from the early
20th century to the present era of crisis, aided by a wealth of research which cuts across the …

The Communist Party of China's triumph in 1949 was an event of momentous importance. It
put an end to the century of foreign intervention in China that had begun with the Opium War …

The 1981 revised history of the Chinese revolution changes previous interpretations in
fundamental respects. The 'people's democratic dictatorship'appropriate to the …

Chinese Communist Party in power, to forget that the" long revolution" that produced the
People's Republic of China in 1949 was probably the most popular and certainly the most …

The victory of the CCP is based on peasant support and the Nationalists' loss of legitimacy
as a consequence of corruption and demoralization.“Mao's faith in human will... led him to …

China has endured a century of turmoil, beginning with the anti-dynastic revolution
associated with Sun Yat-Sen, through the military and tutelary rule of Chiang Kai-shek, the …

B y 1956, the first stage of the commu nist revolution in China was held (prematurely as it
turned out) to have been completed. Consequently, Chair man of the Party Mao Tse-tung …

N recent years, in the People's Republic of China (PRC), tensions grew between the “two
lines,” defined by the Maoist leadership as the “revolu tionary”(radical) and …

During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic
changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the …

Historians of modem China acknowledge the importance of the May Fourth tradition for the
emergence of Communism in that coun-try. Writing more than thirty years ago, Benjamin …