Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

PART ONE: THE REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE

1. Western Imperialism and the Weakness of Chinese Social Classes 2. The Defection of the Intellectuals 3. The Abortiveness of Bourgeois and Proletarian Revolution 4. The Maoist Revolution and the Yan'an Legacy

PART TWO: THE NEW ORDER, 1949-1955

5. The New State 6. The Cities: The Rise and Fall of National Capitalism 7. Land Reform: The Bourgeois Revolution in the Countryside 8. The Social and Political Consequences of Industrialization 9. Agricultural Collectivization, 1953-1957

PART THREE: UTOPIANISM, 1956-1960

10. The Hundred Flowers: Socialism, Bureaucracy, and Freedom 11. Permanent Revolution: The Ideological Origins of the Great Leap 12. Economics of the Great Leap Forward 13. The People's Communes and the "Transition to Communism": 1958-1960

PART FOUR: THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION, 1960-1965

14. The Bureaucratic Restoration 15. The New Economic Policy, 1961-1965 16. The Socialist Education Movement, 1962-1965

PART FIVE: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION. AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1966-1976

17. The Concept of Cultural Revolution 18. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 19. Social Results of the Cultural Revolution 20. The Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and the Close of the Maoist Era, 1969-1976

PART SIX: DENG XIAOPING AND THE ORIGINS OF CHINESE CAPITALISM, 1976-1998

21. The Legacies of the Maoist Era 22. The Rise of Deng Xiaoping and the Critique of Maoism 23. Market Reforms and the Development of Capitalism 24. The Struggle for Democracy 25. The End of the Reign of Deng Xiaoping: China in the 1990s

Selected Bibliography

Index