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

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

462 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

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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...