Book contents
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Anxiety in the Revolutionary Turn
- 9 Letters from the People
- 10 Cadres, Grain, and Rural Conflicts
- 11 How the CCP Has Failed to Obtain Control over China’s Collective Memory on the 1950s
- 12 Postscript
- Index
12 - Postscript
Rethinking China under Mao
from Part III - Legitimacy and Local Agencies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
Book contents
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Anxiety in the Revolutionary Turn
- 9 Letters from the People
- 10 Cadres, Grain, and Rural Conflicts
- 11 How the CCP Has Failed to Obtain Control over China’s Collective Memory on the 1950s
- 12 Postscript
- Index
Summary
The chapter provides an overview of the burgeoning historiography of the People’s Republic of China, especially of the early period between 1949 and 1978, and suggests how we might integrate this new work into narratives of the Chinese past and present. In working through the research of the past thirty years the findings not only help us identify new areas of research, bur also rephrase some of the initial questions. The chapter highlights areas in which reconsidering PRC history seems especially necessary: transnational flows, violence and social transformation.
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- Revolutionary TransformationsThe People's Republic of China in the 1950s, pp. 275 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023