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Mao's China and After

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Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic
AuthorMaurice Meisner
ISBN978-0684856353

Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic is a book by Maurice Meisner. It is a revision of Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic (1977).

Meisner often found his work needed fundamental revision. The first edition of his book was finished just a few weeks before Mao Zedong's death in 1976. A second edition, published in 1986 as Mao's China and After. The book also analyzed the changes that happened with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping. A third edition, published in 1999, studied the origins and consequences of Chinese capitalism.[1]

Rebecca Karl wrote "[h]aving taught his Mao's China and After, I knew that a theoretically coherent and analytically challenging text was possible to use in the classroom."[2]

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  1. ^ Brooks, Susannah (February 2, 2012). "Maurice Meisner, historian of modern China, dies at 80". Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ^ Lynch, Catherine; Marks, Robert B.; Pickowicz, Paul G. (June 2012). "Remembering Maurice Meisner, 1931–2012". Critical Asian Studies. 44 (2): 349–359. doi:10.1080/14672715.2012.672830.