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 …

Page 1 CURZON CHINA'S THIRD REVOLUTION TENSIONS IN THE TRANSITION TO
POST-COMMUNISM Ian G. Cook and Geoffrey Murray Page 2 Page 3 Ian G. Cook is …

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 recent events in China are surely drama of the highest order, but at times it has seemed
that the actors themselves were not entirely sure who was writing the lines. In fact what we …

After 50 years of revolutionary transformation and uneven consolidation, and a generation of
economic re-structuring, the political institutions of the People's Republic of China remain …

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 …

Contemporary China can only be understood in relation to its recent past. During the half
century before 1950, Chinese history was marked both by the vigorous per sistence of …

Throughout China‟ s communist history, the party leadership has extensively used
propaganda to sustain the revolutionary fervor among the masses and different parts of the …

This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and
at the time of the Communist takeover. The conditions that existed just prior to 1949 provided …

Much attention is focused currently on the remarkable changes occurring in China—
changes that have been instigated and promoted by the Chinese Communist Party. Most …