Dilemmas of Victory

The Early Years of the People's Republic of China

Edited by Jeremy Brown

Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz

    Acknowledgments

    1. The Early Years of the People's Republic of China: An Introduction
    Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz

    Part I: Urban Takeover

    2. "Clean-Up": The New Order in Shanghai
    Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

    3. Masters of the Country? Shanghai Workers in the Early People's Republic
    Elizabeth Perry

    4. New Democracy and the Demise of Private Charity in Shanghai
    Nara Dillon

    Part II: Occupying the Periphery

    5. From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950-51
    Jeremy Brown

    6. The Chinese Communist "Liberation" of Tibet, 1949-1951
    Chen Jian

    7. Big Brother is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945-1955
    Christian Hess

    8. The Call of the Oases: The "Peaceful Liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-1953
    James Z. Gao

    Part III: The Culture of Accommodation

    9. The Crocodile Bird: Xiangsheng in the Early 1950s
    Perry Link

    10. "The Very First Lesson": Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China
    Sigrid Schmalzer

    11. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949-1952
    Paul G. Pickowicz

    12. Creating "New China's First New-Style Regular University," 1949-50
    Douglas A. Stiffler

    Part IV: Family Strategies

    13. The Ye Family in New China
    Joseph W. Esherick

    14. Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China
    Gail Hershatter

    15. Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948-1956
    Sherman Cochran

    Notes

    Index

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photo of Jeremy Brown (top); Paul Pickowicz (below)

Jeremy Brown is Assistant Professor of History, Simon Fraser University.

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego and inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Modern Chinese History Endowed Chair.

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