Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese MarxismAuthor: Meisner, MauricePublisher: Lightning Source IncPublication Date: 2006/02/28Number of Pages: 352Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress:

In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is known for, Meisner moves far beyond his previous work to paint a never-before-seen portrait of the political and social realities of China on the brink of the millennium, and the global implications of its rise to economic and political power. (view table of contents)

A study of China during the era of Deng Xiaoping explores the crisis in faith that has resulted from a dramatic clash between capitalist realities and socialist values and ideals, analyzing the social ramifications of Deng's reforms and the failure of the world's greatest socialist experiment.

Product Description: These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism...read more

Product Description: In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)