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The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Cultural Revolution / ed. by Sherman Cochran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781942242727
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.092/251 23
LOC classification:
  • HC426.5.A2 C37 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Part One CAPITALISTSWHO LEFT CHINA -- 2 SHOTGUN WEDDING -- 3 AVOIDING ISOLATION BY THE REVOLUTION -- 4 THINK IT THROUGH THREE TIMES -- PART TWO CAPITALISTS WHO STAYED IN CHINA -- 5 JANUS-FACED CAPITALISM -- 6 VENTURE COMMUNIST -- PART THREE CAPITALISTS WHO RETURNED TO CHINA -- 7 ZHOU ZUOMIN AND THE JINCHENG BANK -- 8 WU YUNCHU AND THE FATE OF THE BOURGEOISIE AND BOURGEOIS LIFESTYLES UNDER COMMUNISM -- 9 THE HONG KONG–SOUTH CHINA FINANCIAL NEXUS -- PART FOUR CAPITALISTS WHO REMAINED ABROAD -- 10 WITHSTANDING COMMUNISM -- 11 DECIDING WHETHER TO RETURN TO TAIWAN -- 12 PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AT POLITICAL CROSSROADS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary: How can capitalists' motivations during a Communist revolution be reliably documented and fully understood? Up to now, the answer to this question has generally eluded scholars who, for lack of nonofficial sources, have fallen back on Communist governments' official explanations. But the essays in this volume confirm that, at least in the case of the Communist revolution in China, it is finally possible to make new and fresh interpretations. By focusing closely on individuals and probing deeply into their thinking and experience, the authors of these essays have discovered a wide range of reasons for why Chinese capitalists did or did not choose to live and work under communism. The contributors to this volume have all concentrated on the dilemma for capitalists in China's Communist revolution. But their approach to their subject through archival research and rigorous analysis may also serve as a guide for future thinking about a variety of other historical figures. This approach is well worth adopting to explain how any members of society (not only capitalists) have resolved comparable dilemmas in all revolutions-the ones in China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, or anywhere else.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Part One CAPITALISTSWHO LEFT CHINA -- 2 SHOTGUN WEDDING -- 3 AVOIDING ISOLATION BY THE REVOLUTION -- 4 THINK IT THROUGH THREE TIMES -- PART TWO CAPITALISTS WHO STAYED IN CHINA -- 5 JANUS-FACED CAPITALISM -- 6 VENTURE COMMUNIST -- PART THREE CAPITALISTS WHO RETURNED TO CHINA -- 7 ZHOU ZUOMIN AND THE JINCHENG BANK -- 8 WU YUNCHU AND THE FATE OF THE BOURGEOISIE AND BOURGEOIS LIFESTYLES UNDER COMMUNISM -- 9 THE HONG KONG–SOUTH CHINA FINANCIAL NEXUS -- PART FOUR CAPITALISTS WHO REMAINED ABROAD -- 10 WITHSTANDING COMMUNISM -- 11 DECIDING WHETHER TO RETURN TO TAIWAN -- 12 PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AT POLITICAL CROSSROADS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS

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How can capitalists' motivations during a Communist revolution be reliably documented and fully understood? Up to now, the answer to this question has generally eluded scholars who, for lack of nonofficial sources, have fallen back on Communist governments' official explanations. But the essays in this volume confirm that, at least in the case of the Communist revolution in China, it is finally possible to make new and fresh interpretations. By focusing closely on individuals and probing deeply into their thinking and experience, the authors of these essays have discovered a wide range of reasons for why Chinese capitalists did or did not choose to live and work under communism. The contributors to this volume have all concentrated on the dilemma for capitalists in China's Communist revolution. But their approach to their subject through archival research and rigorous analysis may also serve as a guide for future thinking about a variety of other historical figures. This approach is well worth adopting to explain how any members of society (not only capitalists) have resolved comparable dilemmas in all revolutions-the ones in China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, or anywhere else.

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In English.

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