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In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that h

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and eco

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

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