Burying Mao : Chinese politics in the age of Deng Xiaoping : Baum, Richard, 1940-2012 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

"With additions and corrections"--T.p.v. - i.e. New ed. -Previous ed.: 1994

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-487) and index

Introduction: The Age of Deng Xiaoping -- pt. I. The Roots of Reform, 1976-1980. Ch. 1. Burying Mao: April 1976-July 1977. Ch. 2. Deng Takes Command: August 1977-December 1978. Ch. 3. The First Fang/Shou Cycle: Novemher 1978-Angust 1980. Ch. 4. High Tide of Reform: Gengshen, 1980 -- pt. II. The Road to Tiananmen, 1981-1989. Ch. 5. Polarization and Paralysis: January 1981-April 1982. Ch. 6. Defining the Spirit of Socialism: Summer 1982-December 1983. Ch. 7. The Rebirth of Liberal Reform: January 1984-Summer 1985. Ch. 8. Social Origins of Student Protest: Summer 1985-December 1986. Ch. 9. Combating Bourgeois Liberalization: January 1987-Spring 1988. Ch. 10. Bittersweet Fruits of Reform: March 1988-April 1989 --Pt. III. The Beijing Spring, 1989. Ch. 11. The Beijing Spring: April-May 1989. Ch. 12. CrackingDown: June 1989-February 1990 -- pt. IV. The Old Order Changes, 1990-1995. Ch. 13. Picking Up the Pieces: Winter 1990-Autumn 1991

As a result of Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives, the austere and colorless collectivism of the Maoist era was supplanted by an upscale entrepreneurial ethos labeled "socialism with Chinese characteristics." For some Chinese this meant new and unprecedented opportunities for upward mobility; for others it meant rising personal vulnerability and marginalization. Today, a scant two decades after Mao's death, few traces of the Chairman's essential zeitgeist remain. Maoism, the spartan, puritanical credo fashioned by a small band of dedicated revolutionaries in the 1930s and 1940s, is moribund. - Preface