The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market

by John Gittings

Book Overview

Gittings, the Guardian's China specialist and East Asia editor for twenty years, offers a fascinating glimpse into Chinese history in the last half century, ranging from the early Peach-Blossom socialism, to the Great Leap Forward, the two Cultural Revolutions, the Hundred Flowers, the Gang of Four, and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Bringing his narrative to the present, Gittings concludes that environmental degradation and rising pollution represent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192806122
• ISBN13: 9780192806123
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.3" x 6.3"