China Changes Face: The Road from Revolution, 1949-1989

by John Gittings

Book Overview

China has changed dramatically since Mao's victory over the Nationalists in 1949. Once a revered leader, Mao is now publically criticized for leading his people astray. And if seven hundred thousand landlords and rich farmers were executed during the land reform of the 1950, today private enterprise flourishes, and the Chinese people aspire to dishwashers and color TVs.
In China Changes Face, John Gittings examines the political, social, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192158872
• ISBN13: 9780192158871
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"