Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The new China: a troubled and chaotic childhood, 1912-27
• Rival visions of the new China, 1928-37
• war with Japan
• Civil war and communist victory
• The new dynasty: China, 1949-56
• Politics, personalities, dissent and repression: China 1954-58
• The Great Leap Forward
• Recovery and revolution: China, 1961-69
• China and the world, 1949-76
• The last years of the red emperor: China 1969-76
• Assessment

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