Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China by Elizabeth J. Perry, James Gao, Christian A. Hess, Douglas A. Stiffler, Gail Hershatter, Sherman Cochran, Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., Paul Pickowicz, Jeremy Brown, Perry Link, Chen Jian, Joseph W. Esherick, Sigrid Schmalzer, Nara Dillon

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Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China

Elizabeth J. Perry, James Gao, Christian A. Hess, Douglas A. Stiffler, Gail Hershatter, Sherman Cochran, Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., Paul Pickowicz, Jeremy Brown, Perry Link, Chen Jian, Joseph W. Esherick, Sigrid Schmalzer, Nara Dillon

462 pages • first pub 2008 • 1 edition

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-19...