Table of Contents

1. The Cultural Renaissance 2. The United Front and its Breakdown 3. Maozhu in the Countryside and the Long March 4. The Nanjing Decade (1927–37) and World War Two (1937–45) 5. Yanan: The Formative Years, 1936–44 6. Civil War and Communist Victory 7. The Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Korean War,and the Early Years of the People's Republic, 1949–55 8. The Hundred Flowers 9. The Great Leap Forward 10. The Cultural Revolution 11. Years of Transition 12. Modernization in the 1980s 13. Defining the Chinese Nation: Hong Kong, Tibet, and the Minorities 14. China Enters the Twenty-First Century

About the Author

Alan Lawrance

Reviews

'Useful reading for anyone embarking on the study of modern Chinese politics. The very diverse collection of documents compiled by the late Alan Lawrance provides in handy form useful materials covering most of the 20th Century.' - Asian Affairs'This collection of source documents brings together over 150 extracts from a variety of political statements, correspondence, speeches, memoirs, and poems to illustrate the twentieth-century history of China'. - International Review of Social History

'Useful reading for anyone embarking on the study of modern Chinese politics. The very diverse collection of documents compiled by the late Alan Lawrance provides in handy form useful materials covering most of the 20th Century.' - Asian Affairs