Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949–1957
- Chapter 2 The great leap forward and the split in the Yan'an leadership 1958–1965
- Chapter 3 The Chinese State in crisis, 1966–1969
- Chapter 4 The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969–1982
- Chapter 5 The road to Tiananmen: Chinese politics in the 1980s
- Chapter 6 Reaction, Resurgence, and Succession: Chinese Politics since Tiananmen
- Chapter 7 Dilemmas of globalization and governance
- Appendix Leaders and Meetings
- References
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - The great leap forward and the split in the Yan'an leadership 1958–1965
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949–1957
- Chapter 2 The great leap forward and the split in the Yan'an leadership 1958–1965
- Chapter 3 The Chinese State in crisis, 1966–1969
- Chapter 4 The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969–1982
- Chapter 5 The road to Tiananmen: Chinese politics in the 1980s
- Chapter 6 Reaction, Resurgence, and Succession: Chinese Politics since Tiananmen
- Chapter 7 Dilemmas of globalization and governance
- Appendix Leaders and Meetings
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
An overview
The year 1958 began with the Chinese Communist leaders optimistic about their ability to lead the country up the path of rapid economic development and social progress. To be sure, not all Politburo members agreed on the best methods to use to accomplish these great tasks, but overall confidence was high and the degree of underlying unity clearly sufficient to enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to act in a consistent and decisive manner. Seven years later, deep fissures had rent this leadership to the point where Mao Zedong himself stood on the verge of launching a devastating attack against many of the colleagues with whom he had worked for more than three decades. That attack would, in turn, launch China into a decade so tumultuous that even in the early 1980s leaders in Beijing would look back to the eve of the 1958–65 era wistfully as the time when the Party's power, prestige, and unity had reached pinnacles. The eight years between 1958 and 1965 were a period of major transition in the Chinese revolution.
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- The Politics of ChinaSixty Years of The People's Republic of China, pp. 87 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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