Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China: An Introduction 1
5. I. Urban Takeover
6. 2. “Cleanup”: The New Order in Shanghai 21
7. 3. Masters of the Country? Shanghai Workers in the Early People’s Republic 59
8. 4. New Democracy and the Demise of Private Charity in Shanghai 80
9. II. Occupying the Periphery
10. 5. From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950–51 105
11. 6. The Chinese Communist “Liberation” of Tibet, 1949–51 130
12. 7. Big Brother Is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945–55 160
13. 8. The Call of the Oases: The “Peaceful Liberation” of Xinjiang, 1949–53 184
14. III. The Culture of Accommodation
15. 9. The Crocodile Bird: Xiangsheng in the Early 1950s 207
16. 10. “The Very First Lesson”: Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China 232
17. 11. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949–52 256
18. 12. Creating “New China’s First New-Style Regular University,” 1949–50 288
19. IV. Family Strategies
20. 13. The Ye Family in New China 311
21. 14. Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China 337
22. 15. Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948–56 359
23. Notes 387
24. Contributors 445
25. Index 449