Red China Today : The Other Side of the River

251 112 24MB

English Pages 749 [728] Year 1970

Report DMCA / Copyright

DOWNLOAD FILE

Red China Today : The Other Side of the River

Table of contents :
Contents
A Note on Chinese Pronunciation
Maps
China and the United States
Principal Minerals and Industrial Centers
Farm and Forest Lands
Principal Minority Nationality Areas
Introduction
Preface: China in the 1970s
Part One: Rediscovering China
1. Arrival in Peking
2. The Quiet City
3. The Big City
4. Confucius to Mao
5. Paotou Retrospect
6. Steel in Mongolia
7. White Cloud
8. Mongol Commune
9. Why China Went Red
10. Aboard the Premier's Special Train
11. New Shoes on Ancient Mountains
12. Chou En-lai and America
13. Table Talk
14. Sino–Russian ‘Differences’
Part Two: Where the Waves Beat
15. The Big Change
16. Impersonality of Power
17. Flashback to Pao An
18. The Long March
19. Power Personality
20. Mao at Home
Part Three: Socialist Construction
21. Steel Decade
22. Reeling, Writhing and Arithmetic
23. Of Leaps Forward
24. And Leaps Backward
25. Yao Wei and Private Enterprise
26. Manchuria: Industrial Heartland
27. Two Legs Are Better Than One
28. High Society
29. Science and Education
30. ‘Ministry’' of Spare-Time Education
31. Steel, Sex and Politics
32. Swan Lake in Peking
33. Doctor Horse
34. Subversive Medicine
35. I See the Army
36. The Family: Fact and Fancy
37. Medical History, Personal and Otherwise
38. From John D. to Acupuncture
Part Four: The Democratic Dictatorship
39. State and Superstructure
40. The 800
41. The Party and the People
42. Security
43. ‘Slave Labor’
44. Hsueh-Hsi and Reform-Through-Labor
45. Pre-Teen Delinquents
46. Prelude to the Hundred Flowers
47. Unity—Criticism—Unity
48. Wild Flowers.
49. Counterattack and Paradox
Part Five: Northwest: Old Cradle of New China
50. Of Blue Ants and White
51. Co-ops to Communes
52. At Whose Demand?
53. Communes to Brigadunes
54. Chairman Yen
55. A Commune That Worked
56. Sian: ‘Western Peace’
57. Museum of the Revolution
58. Yenan Teachers College
59. Pride of Poor Men
60. Willow Grove
61. The Yellow River Turns Blue
62. The Grandest Coolie
63. Loyang and Chengchow
Part Six: Shanghai and Beyond
64. Shanghai
65. ‘Building, Building –’
66. The Mayor of Shanghai
67. God and Party
68. Literature and Music
69. Crime and Punishment
70. The Triple Cities
71. Szechuan, ‘The Heavenly Land’
72. A Few Words on Tibet
73. National Minorities
Part Seven: The Long March Ahead
74. South of the Clouds
75. Facts About Food
76. China, the United States, Russia and the Bomb
77. China and Russia: Point, Counterpoint
78. China and Japan
79. War and Peace in Vietnam
80. Childhood’s End?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Polecaj historie