The Cambridge History of China Vol. 14: The People's Republic Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1949-1965

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This is the first of the two final volumes of The Cambridge History of China which describe the efforts of the Peoples Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regimes first sixteen years (194965). Part I chronicles the attempt to adapt the Soviet model of development to China and Part II covers the subsequent efforts of Chinas leaders to find native solutions that would provide more rapid and appropriate answers to Chinas problems. Each of the two parts of the volume analyzes the key issues and developments in the spheres of politics economics culture education and foreign relations. The contributors all leading scholars of the period show the interrelation of Chinese actions in all these spheres and the describe how gradually events led to the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Tse-tung in 1966.