本书是美国哈佛大学荣誉教授、著名中国问题专家傅高义研究当代中国的第一部专著。他以广东为着眼点，考察和叙述了从1949年到1968年的20年间，中国所经历的一系列深刻、激烈的政治运动。持论公允，叙述可观。一方面，他充分肯定，共产党的领导给中国带来了秩序、朝气和希望，以及理想主义和爱国主义的激情，给人民带来了一些实际的好处，过去的黑市、通胀结束了，赌博、卖淫、鸦片消失了；官员有一种服务意识和纪律意识。经济领域统一的社会主义改造，也有其积极的作用。在经济事务之外，集体合作组织在消灭文富、推广公共卫生等活动中也可以发挥相当大的作用。党通过政治组织已经实现了相当大的经济上的进步。另一方面，他也指出，共产党建立了强大的政治体系控制社会、改造社会，重要的经济、文化、教育、农村的活动都置于政府的管理之下，政治决定取代了市场机制，政治指挥经济，也造成了很消极的后果：社会进步缓慢，人民生活也没有明显提高。拿广东来说，经历这么多年之后，绝大多数人还是从事农业；合作化运动所追求的改革生产关系，提高生产力，迅速提高粮食产量的目的并没有达到；“大跃进”的失败，“文化大革命”以大规模的群众政治运动摧垮务实政策和主张务实的领导人，竭力维护意识形态的纯洁性，都造成了很严重的后果。

Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital, 1949–1968 (Harvard East Asian Series, 41)

History

Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Ezra F

Asia

Harvard University Press

Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. Like a bowl of salted peanuts, these vignettes make you want "more." The book was welcomed on its publication as the most entertaining and instructive introduction to the rapidly modernizing people of the new China and their resilient customs. While it has been taught in recent years at the Harvard Business School, the book -- or at least its title -- has been cited much more than read, usually to illustrate American illusions about the China market. Yet the book has lost none of its still perceptive insights into China, which is now more than triple "four hundred million." "Crow, living in Shanghai [in the early twentieth century], wrote in a bemused manner about city dwellers. [While] Crow's book was of little value to the China watcher of the 1950s and 1960s . . . once Chinese reform and opening took off after 1978, the clever city dwellers that Crow described in the 1930s are a far better guide to the China of today than [Edgar] Snow's revolutionaries or [Pearl] Buck's peasants. "I have a former student, a successful businessman, who opened a factory in Shanghai a few months ago. On his reading stand he keeps a copy of Four Hundred Million Customers. 'No other book, ' he said, 'including many more contemporary works on the Chinese economy, provides as much insight into the business environment I face. And it helps me keep my sense of humor as I face the frustrations of doing business in China.' No need to repeat the wonderful stories and phrases found in the book. Enjoy." -- from the Introduction by Ezra F. Vogel

Four Hundred Million Customers: The Experiences - Some Happy, Some Sad - of an American in China and What They Taught Him

Business & Money

Crow, Carl

International

Eastbridge Books

Deng Xiaoping has a profound impact on the direction of Chinese history and world history. He has also changed the fate of every contemporary Chinese. The interpretation of Deng Xiaopings political career and his behavioral logics can be seen as the interpretation of contemporary China and the history situation behind personal destinies. The Era of Deng Xiaoping, a masterpiece with authority written by professor Fu Gaoyi in Harvard University in as long as 10 years, is a panoramic description of Deng Xiaopings life which is full of ups and downs and the rugged and breathtaking road of reform and opening up in China. The author makes an in-depth analysis of Deng Xiaopings personality and governing style,and a complete and unique interpretation of the history of Chinas reform and opening up. The book covers a wealth of Chinese and foreign archival data and research results, as well as a large number of exclusive interviews. Major issues such as: the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, historical assessment of Hua Guofeng, behind-the-scenes twists and turns of the reform and opening up, relationships between Deng Xiaoping and many of the key figures at that time,question of Hong Kong, and Deng Xiaopings southern tour are all elaborated and analyzed in detail. It boasts not only the rigorous and specialization of academic research, but also a thorough grasp of political reality and things, truth and human relationships in China, known as a ""monumental "" writing on the study of Deng Xiaoping.

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Chinese and English Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Sheng Hui, Du Shu, Xin Zhi San Lian Shu Dian/ Tsai Fong Books

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