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Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History

Name: Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822347958
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Contributors:

Rebecca E. Karl

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Presidents & Heads of State, Asia, Political Ideologies

Book Topic:

China, Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Series:

Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society (Paperback)

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Release Date:

2010-08-13

ISBN 13:

9780822347958

Weight:

0.7 lbs

Pages:

216

Description

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution. She situates Mao and the revolution in a global setting informed by imperialism, decolonization, and third worldism, and discusses worldwide trends in politics, the economy, military power, and territorial sovereignty. Karl begins with Mao's early life in a small village in Hunan province, documenting his relationships with his parents, passion for education, and political awakening during the fall of the Qing dynasty in late 1911. She traces his transition from liberal to Communist over the course of the next decade, his early critiques of the subjugation of women, and the gathering force of the May 4th movement for reform and radical change. Describing Mao's rise to power, she delves into the dynamics of Communist organizing in an overwhelmingly agrarian society, and Mao's confrontations with Chiang Kaishek and other nationalist conservatives. She also considers his marriages and romantic liaisons and their relation to Mao as the revolutionary founder of Communism in China. After analyzing Mao's stormy tenure as chairman of the People's Republic of China, Karl concludes by examining his legacy in China from his death in 1976 through the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

About the Author

Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.

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