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Two Chinese reporters present China-as seen through the eyes of over sixty of its own people.

Photographs and text cover the origin and development of China's Communist regime, and examine the forces (nuclear power and population growth) that are pushing the country toward change.

This book takes the reader on a journey of the history of China, the world's most populous country. The time period since the Chinese Revolution is covered, including such figures as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang. Special emphasis is placed on China's recent upheavals, the crushing of the pro-democracy movement, and possible solutions to China's problems.

Explores the lives of Mao Zedong, Teng Hsiao-Ping, and other Chinese government officials whose lavish lifestyles and intrigue rivaled the emperors they overthrew.

Discusses the consumer revolution that has brought China's urban areas to the news, the new middle class, an expanding private sector and employment, the increase in direct foreign investment, the population migration from rural to urban areas and from the interior to the coast, and the integration into the international economic system.

This book traces the history of China, from 1945 when the Cold War begins between Communist and democratic nations to 2008 when China's world image is damaged as it represses protests by Tibetans for greater freedom.

Chronicles China's involvement in the Cold War under Mao, discussing such topics as the Chinese Civil War in 1945-46 and China's role in the Korean War, the First Indochina War, the Polish and Hungarian Crises of 1956, the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958, the Vietnam War, and the Sino-American rapprochement in the early 1970s.

Chronicles China's twentieth-century history, examining the rise of Mao Zedong, the Cultural Revolution, the Deng Xiaoping years, the effects of Chinese capitalism, the democracy movement, and the future of socialism.