E-raamat: New Perspectives on State Socialism in China

Introduction: The Making and Breaking of the Party-State in China Part
1: Studies Mechanisms of Control
1. The Construction of Spatial Hierarchies:
China's Hukou and Danwei Systems
2. The United Front Redefined for the
Party-State: A Case Study Of Transition and Legitimation
3. The Mechanics of
State Propaganda: The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in the
1950s;
4. Building the Party-State in China, 1949-1965: Bringing the Soldier
Back In Contradictions in Practice
5. The Politics of an Un-Maoist lnterlude:
The Case of Opposing Rash Advance, 19561957;
6. Localism, Central Policy,
and the Provincial Purges of 1957-1958: The Case of Zhejiang ;
7. Shanghai's
Strike Wave of 1957;
8. Surviving the Great Leap Famine: The Struggle Over
Rural Policy, 1958-1962; Conclusion: Uncertain Legacies of Revolution; Part
11: Sources and Methods; Newly Available Sources on CCP History from the
People's Republic Of China; Interviews on Party History; Mendacity and
Veracity in the Recent Chinese Communist Memoir Literature; The National
Defense University's Teaching Reference Materials; Researching China's
Provinces

Timothy Cheek is associate professor of history at Colorado College. Tony Saich is director of the Ford Foundation Office, Beijing and former professor of contemporary Chinese politics at the Sinological Institute, University of Leiden.