Original publication date
2015
Pages
xiv; 413
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015; 4th printing
Physical description
xiv, 413 p.; 25 cm
ISBN
9780674975491
Language
Description
China�s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976�an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.