Contents -- 1 The Smashing of the Gang of Four -- The Deaths of National Leaders -- The Gang of Four -- Mao and the Gang -- 2 Deng Xiaoping and China's New Order -- Deng's Rehabilitation -- Deng's Drive for Political Dominance -- The Demystification of Mao -- 3 The Normalization of Relations between China and the United States -- The Normalization of Diplomatic Relations -- The Normalization of Trade and Other Relations -- 4 The Four Modernizations -- The Ten-Year Plan -- Major Problems of Modernization: Capital, Manpower and Planning -- Retrenchment and Revised Priorities -- Profit, Material Incentive, and Structural Reorganization -- The Consequences of Rapid Modernization -- Foreign Value and Chinese Essence -- 5 The End of the Maoist Age -- The Trial of the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao Group -- Assessments of Mao -- A New Leadership and a New Order -- Chinese Communism: A Thirty-five-Year Review -- 6 Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics -- The Vision of Deng Xiaoping -- Agricultural Reform -- Industrial Reform -- The Open-Door Policy -- Future Prospects of Growth -- 7 China in Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy -- Student Demonstrations -- The Thirteenth Party Congress -- The Coastal Development Plan -- Society in Flux: Rising Inflation and Falling Ethics -- 8 Taiwan's "Economic Miracle" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China -- Causes of Taiwan's Economic Success -- The Prospects for Reunification -- 9 Postscript: The Violent Crackdown at Tian-an-men Square, June 3-4,1989 -- The Gathering Storm -- The Party Split -- The Mind-set of the Gerontocracy -- The Massacre -- Rewriting History -- Guide to Pinyin and Wade-Giles Systems -- Appendix: On Questions of Party History -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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