The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976

Editor's introductions: in search of PRC history Julia Strauss; 1. China's internationalization in the early People's Republic: dreams of a socialist economy William C. Kirby; 2. Morality, coercion and state building by campaign in the early PRC: regime consolidation and after, 1949–56 Julia Strauss; 3. Dilemmas of inside agitators: Chinese state feminists in 1957 Wang Zheng; 4. Aspects of an institutionalizing political system: China, 1958–65 David Bachman; 5. Squeezing the peasants: grain extraction, food consumption and rural living standards in Mao's China Robert Ash; 6. Local cadres confront the supernatural: the politics of holy water (Shenshui) in the PRC, 1949–66 Steve A. Smith; 7. Factional conflict at Beijing University, 1966–8 Andrew G Walder; 8. Zheng Junli, complicity and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949–76 Paul G. Pickowicz; 9. In search of a master narrative for twentieth-century Chinese history Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; 10. The China Quarterly and the history of the PRC Roderick MacFarquhar.