The Choice at the Fork: China from 1956-1957 (Chinese Edition)

Why the hope and expectation in 1956 turned to the disappointment and depression in 1957? Why the CCP's eighth congress decided to deepen democracy, strengthen the legal system and concentrate on construction, but did the opposite way in 1957? Why Mao Zedong followed the same old disastrous road of Stalin after seeing the all kinds of drawbacks of the Soviet socialist model? Why the elites of Chinese communist party made this choice after thoughtful thinking? How did this happen? What role did China play in the crisis of Poland and Hungary? This book tries to use the documentary and historical materials we could see to describe this historical process.