Our comprehension of the great Chinese revolution of modern timeshas developed through a series of well-marked phases. A brief reviewof these phases is the best introduction to this volume of The Cam-bridge History of China, which deals with the first sixteen years ofthe People's Republic, 1949-65. A brief look at ...

The Cultural Revolution made the Chinese Communist Party veryunpopular. Many moderate members of the Party including DengXiaoping also suffered during the Cultural Revolution. When Dengsucceeded as the leader of the Party in 1978, he initiated economicreforms in the 11th Party Congress. This was to be a 180-degreeturn from the previous ...

Besides the shortcomings of the system of central economic planning, the Chinese population suffered a great deal from two political movements initiated and orchestrated by the Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. The first was the Great Leap Forward Movement of 1958. Mao converted the farm collectivesinto Communes in only a few ...

The new government was able to take over and administer a verylarge country. Besides providing law and order, there werenumerous tasks to perform. One was to stabilize the price level. Inthe Spring of 1950, as a student, I wrote a paper for a course atCornell on Chinese inflation. I found ...