China Since 1919: Revolution and Reform : a SourcebookPsychology Press, 2004 - 285 pages This Sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 from the viewpoints of participants. Over 150 extracts from political statements, telegrams, speeches, memoirs, letters and poems illuminate the historical development of China from the May Fourth Movement onwards, and answer key questions such as:
This collection includes many classic documents as well as less accessible extracts, including a number only recently in the public domain. It will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in the modern history of China. |
Contents
The cultural renaissance | 1 |
A clarion call Extract from the first issue of the Morning Bell | 4 |
1 | 10 |
1 | 16 |
The United Front and its breakdown | 18 |
2 | 22 |
6 | 29 |
9 | 35 |
The SinoSoviet Alliance the Korean War and the early years of the Peoples Republic 194955 | 120 |
2 | 124 |
6 | 131 |
10 | 137 |
The Hundred Flowers | 141 |
5b Mao reprimands the Editorial Board of the Peoples Daily 10 April 1957 | 152 |
The Great Leap Forward | 158 |
8b Report by Zhou Enlai 26 August 1959 | 170 |
MaoZhu in the countryside and the Long March | 39 |
2 | 43 |
9 | 55 |
The Nanjing decade 192737 and World War Two 193745 | 60 |
1 | 61 |
4 | 68 |
7 | 76 |
The formative years 193644 | 82 |
4 | 89 |
6 | 95 |
The civil war and communist victory | 102 |
6 | 111 |
10 | 117 |
The Cultural Revolution | 183 |
3a A bigcharacter poster at Beijing University 25 May 1966 | 188 |
9b Big scab Liu Shaochi is the mortal foe of the working class | 201 |
Years of transition | 205 |
1b Further thoughts by Marshal Chen Yi on SinoAmerican relations | 208 |
Modernization in the 1980s | 225 |
2b Grain output and gross agricultural production values 198190 | 231 |
8b Zhao Ziang decides to resign 18 May 1989 | 240 |
Hong Kong Tibet and the minorities | 245 |
China enters the twentyfirst century | 256 |
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