In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is known for, Meisner moves far beyond his previous work to paint a never-before-seen portrait of the political and social realities of China on the brink of the millennium, and the global implications of its rise to economic and political power.

作者

莫裏斯．邁斯納（Maurice Meisner），美國威斯康星．麥迪遜大學歷史學教授，及倫敦經濟學院客座教授，重要著作包括《李大釗與中國馬剋思主義的起源》、《馬剋思主義、毛主義與烏托邦》及多部有關當代中國歷史的專論，廣獲翻譯成中文、韓文、日文、法文、德文、葡文和西班牙文。

譯者

杜蒲，中共中央黨校博士，專研中華人民共和國歷史。現任中國社會科學院當代中國研究所研究員及科研辦公室主任，曾任教於清華大學思想文化研究所，著有《極左思潮的歷史考察》、《國力論》及《中華人民共和國50年大圖典》等書。