Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution

by Karl Gerth

Book Overview

What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521868467
• ISBN13: 9780521868464
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"