China without Mao

The Search for a New Order

By: Immanuel C. Y. Hsu

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Paperback | 1 November 1989 | Edition Number 2

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344 Pages

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Now available in a new, updated edition, this groundbreaking book on post-Mao China, written by the distinguished Asian scholar Immanuel C.Y. Hsü, explores the astonishing transformation that has occurred there. Since Mao Zedong's death in 1976, China's leaders have launched an ambitious modernization program aimed at making their nation a relatively prosperous socialist state by the year 2000. Along with the first edition's examination of the smashing of the Gang of Four, the evolution of a new order under Deng Xiaoping, the manner and costs of modernization, the normalization of relations with the United States, and the prospects for reunification with Taiwan, the second edition offers an insider's view into China's policies of accelerated economic development and opening to the outside world, adopted at a December 1978 party conference. Focusing on the cultural impact of these policies, Hsü candidly reveals both the improved standard of living and the serious fundamental problems--including high inflation, widespread corruption, crises in leadership, loss of faith in communism, and especially the recent student protests--resulting from these recent developments. The new edition also includes a postscript which takes into account the causes and consequences of the Tian An Men Square massacre in June of 1989.

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Praise for the first edition: "A balanced and thoughtful account."--Foreign Affairs "Clear and insightful....A succinct, incisive treatment of recent Chinese political history."--Library Journal "Excellent...enlightening...[and] challenging."--Perspective "A book that is worth reading--for both the scholar and the layman....Excellent...enlightening...[and] challenging."--Perspective Praise for the second edition "[A] thought provoking explanation of recent events and their place in contemporary Chinese history...better than the first edition."--Lewis Bernstein, Boise State University "This is a timely and important book that places contemporary China in the context of the tremendous changes that have occurred since 1976."--Robert Antony, Western Kentucky University "A critical text, [China Without Mao] fills a very important gap. The preface, written months before the ugly events of May-June 1989, is remarkably prescient."--Hugh R. Clark, Ursinus College "Excellent!"--Edward Zebrowski, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania "A good general survey of some difficult terrain."--R. J. Smith, Rice University "It is clearly and simply written thus making it accessible to a wide audience....Hsu brings the same meticulous detail to these [new] chapters as to his earlier work."--China Quarterly

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The Smashing of the Gang of Four	p. 3
The Deaths of National Leaders	p. 4
The Gang of Four	p. 12
Mao and the Gang	p. 22
Deng Xiaoping and China's New Order	p. 30
Deng's Rehabilitation	p. 31
Deng's Drive for Political Dominance	p. 34
The Demystification of Mao	p. 45
The Normalization of Relations between China and the United States	p. 57
The Normalization of Diplomatic Relations	p. 58
The Normalization of Trade and Other Relations	p. 78
The Four Modernizations	p. 92
The Ten-Year Plan	p. 94
Major Problems of Modernization: Capital, Manpower and Planning	p. 102
Retrenchment and Revised Priorities	p. 107
Profit, Material Incentive, and Structural
Reorganization	p. 111
The Consequences of Rapid Modernization	p. 113
Foreign Value and Chinese Essence	p. 117
The End of the Maoist Age	p. 127
The Trial of the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao Group	p. 127
Assessments of Mao	p. 142
A New Leadership and a New Order	p. 156
Chinese Communism: A Thirty-five-Year Review	p. 158
Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	p. 168
The Vision of Deng Xiaoping	p. 168
Agricultural Reform	p. 171
Industrial Reform	p. 177
The Open-Door Policy	p. 188
Future Prospects of Growth	p. 199
China in Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy	p. 206
Student Demonstrations	p. 208
The Thirteenth Party Congress	p. 225
The Coastal Development Plan	p. 235
Society in Flux: Rising Inflation and Falling Ethics	p. 239
Taiwan's "Economic Miracle" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China	p. 248
Causes of Taiwan's Economic Success	p. 251
The Prospects for Reunification	p. 264
Postscript: The Violent Crackdown at Tian-an-men Square, June 3-4, 1989	p. 276
The Gathering Storm	p. 277
The Party Split	p. 279
The Mind-set of the Gerontocracy	p. 284
The Massacre	p. 286
Rewriting History	p. 290
Guide to Pinyin and Wade-Giles Systems	p. 295
Appendix: On Questions of Party History	p. 301
Index	p. 313
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