Books in the Contemporary China Institute Publications series

A study of China's urban employment problems between 1949 and 1957. Its main objectives are to analyse the size and determinants or urban employment change, and to trace the evolution both of Chinese thinking about employment and the institutions of labour control that reflected this thinking in day-to-day administration.

This 1975 bibliography catalogues the holdings of Chinese newspapers and periodicals in European libraries in the early 1970s. The titles are romanised according to the Pinyin system, and each entry comprises a bibliographical section followed by lists of holdings of individual libraries.

This book, first published in 1984, looks at the way in which food grains still provided the overwhelming proportion of food intake in China. It also analyses how the Chinese Government through central planning attempted to supply its vast, rapidly growing population with adequate grain, from 1953 to 1980.

Diana Lary examines the origins, training and behaviour of the ordinary soldiers of Warlord China and why they were the direct agents of oppression and terror. It thus provides a case study of the misery inflicted by military regimes on civilian societies.

According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted view is that China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making as a process.

Dr Vermeer's study of the economic development on Central Shaanxi province from 1930 until 1988 illustrates the effects of famine, war and construction under Chinese communism. He surveyed extensively the economy of the region in both the hill and plain areas and used the local government data and his own observations to create a detailed book.

Professor Schram offers a fascinating and sure-footed analysis of Mao's intellectual itinerary, recognizing the positive value of his thought but underscoring also the irrationality of Mao's Great Leap strategy, and the destructive consequences of the personality cult.

Shanghai is Asia's largest city and for over a hundred years has played a critical role both in China's internal political arid economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in the Far East. This book is a comprehensive study of the way in which old Shanghai was transformed and developed by the Communist Party between 1949 and the later 1970s.

Shanghai is Asia's largest city and for over a hundred years has played a critical role both in China's internal political arid economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in the Far East. This book is a comprehensive study of the way in which old Shanghai was transformed and developed by the Communist Party between 1949 and the later 1970s.

Originally published in 1970, this volume consists of essays by twelve leading scholars from the United States and Britain, all of whom concentrated their studies on the problems of China. The reader is provided with a comprehensive insight into the workings of politics in Communist China and a tentative assessment of the perceived future.

Mao Tse-tung was one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. In this 1977 book, eleven scholars renowned for their penetrating and lively analysis of Mao during his career and influence, here make their assessments of his career and influence, after his death.

This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on the immediate consequences and the likely long-term effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the enormous social and political upheaval initiated by Mao Tse-Tung in 1966.

Originally published in 1976, this book examines how a new system of factory management was implemented in China after the liberation of 1948-9. The focus of the book is broadly political and sociological rather than economic, and the author examines closely the political background against which economic change was introduced.

This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. The book will interest a wide range of readers, not just those who specialise in Chinese social history. Contributors include two anthropologists, one historian, three political scientists, and three sociologists.