Marxism and the making of China : a doctrinal history / A. James Gregor.
| Author/creator | Gregor, A. James, 1929- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration -- 1. China, Marxism, and the Background in Time -- 2. Marxism, Revolution, and Development -- 3. Marxism, Revolution, and the Making of New Nations -- 4. China, Developmental Nationalism, and Revolution -- 5. Mao Zedong and the Conquest of China -- 6. The Making of Maoism -- 7. 'Mao Zedong Thought' -- 8. The Passing of Maoism as a Developmental System -- 9. Deng Xiaoping, Maoism, and 'Proletarian Internationalism' -- 10. The Ideology of Post-Maoist China -- 11. New China in Comparative Perspective. |
| Abstract | This volume constitutes a rigorous attempt to assess the actual influence of traditional Marxist theory - the doctrines of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - on developments in revolutionary China. Employing primary documents, the exposition carries the reader from the first years of the Chinese Communist Party, through the stresses of the war of resistance against Japan and the Civil War - that concluded with the proclamation of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. An account of the Mao epoch, inspired by a fundamentally transformed Marxism, is prelude to the 'Second Chinese Revolution' that saw the 'Thought of Deng Xiaoping' shaping the destiny of the New China. The role of modern China, as a reactive nationalist, single-party, developmental dictatorship, is assessed against what we know of such systems, and how they have influenced our history in the past. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gregor, A. James (Anthony James), 1929- Marxism and the making of China. First edition 9781137379481 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781137379498 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137379499 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781349478842 |
| ISBN | 1349478849 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1057/9781137379498 |
| Stock number | 711018 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
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