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DILEMMAS OF VICTORY

Ed. by Brown, Jeremy

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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March 2010
Copyright year:
2007
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978-0-674-03365-8
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Frontmatter

Pages i-vi

Contents

Pages vii-x

Acknowledgments

Pages xi-xiv

1. The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China: An Introduction

Brown, Jeremy / Pickowicz, Paul G.

Pages 1-18

I. Urban Takeover

2. “Cleanup”: The New Order in Shanghai

Wakeman, Frederic

Pages 21-58

3. Masters of the Country? Shanghai Workers in the Early People’s Republic

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Pages 59-79

4. New Democracy and the Demise of Private Charity in Shanghai

Dillon, Nara

Pages 80-102

II. Occupying the Periphery

5. From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950–51

Brown, Jeremy

Pages 105-129

6. The Chinese Communist “Liberation” of Tibet, 1949–51

Jian, Chen

Pages 130-159

7. Big Brother Is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945–55

Hess, Christian A.

Pages 160-183

8. The Call of the Oases: The “Peaceful Liberation” of Xinjiang, 1949–53

Gao, James Z.

Pages 184-204

III. The Culture of Accommodation

9. The Crocodile Bird: Xiangsheng in the Early 1950s

Link, Perry

Pages 207-231

10. “The Very First Lesson”: Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China

Schmalzer, Sigrid

Pages 232-255

11. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949–52

Pickowicz, Paul G.

Pages 256-287

12. Creating “New China’s First New-Style Regular University,” 1949–50

Stiffler, Douglas A.

Pages 288-308

IV. Family Strategies

13. The Ye Family in New China

Esherick, Joseph W.

Pages 311-336

14. Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China

Hershatter, Gail

Pages 337-358

15. Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948–56

Cochran, Sherman

Pages 359-386

Notes

Pages 387-444

Contributors

Pages 445-448

Index

Pages 449-462

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