Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition

In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998, analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is known for, Meisner moves far beyond his previous work to paint a never-before-seen portrait of the political and social realities of China on the brink of the millennium, and the global implications of its rise to economic and political power.

Author: Maurice Meisner
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.05w x 1.46d
ISBN13: 9780684856353
ISBN10: 0684856352
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | China
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- History | World | General

About the Author
Maurice Meisner is the Harvey Goldberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. His writings, which have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, include Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism; Marxism, Maoism and Utopianism; and many other works on modern Chinese history.