Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. I: Introduction
5. Prologue: the Decay of the old order and the building of a new 3
6. Canton before Communism 12
7. II: Building the new order
8. Local urban control: Takeover and Consolidation, 1949-1952 41
9. Central Control: the Legacy of Land Reform, 1951-1953 91
10. Economic Control: Socialist Transformation, 1953-1956 125
11. III: Adapting the new order
12. Moderation: the Rightist Interlude, 1956-1957 181
13. Utopianism: the Great Leap Forward, 1957-1960 218
14. Reconstruction: Recovery and its aftermath, 1960-1965 271
15. Political Revivalism, 1966-February 1968 321
16. The political Conquest of Society 350
17. Appendix 357
18. Notes 381
19. Glossary of names and locations 423
20. Glossary of terms and phrases 426
21. Index 431