Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Early Years of the People's Republic of China: An Introduction - Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz -- I. Urban Takeover -- 2. "Cleanup": The New Order in Shanghai - Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- 3. Masters of the Country? Shanghai Workers in the Early People's Republic - Elizabeth J. Perry -- 4. New Democracy and the Demise of Private Charity in Shanghai - Nara Dillon -- II. Occupying the Periphery -- 5. From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950-51 - Jeremy Brown -- 6. The Chinese Communist "Liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 - Chen Jian -- 7. Big Brother Is Watching: Local Sino-SovietRelations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945-55 - Christian A. Hess -- 8. The Call of the Oases: The "Peaceful Liberation"of Xinjiang, 1949-53 - James Z. Gao -- III. The Culture of Accommodation -- 9. The Crocodile Bird: Xiangsheng in the Early 1950s - Perry Link -- 10. "The Very First Lesson": Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China - Sigrid Schmalzer -- 11. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949-52 - Paul G. Pickowicz -- 12. Creating "New China's First New-Style Regular University," 1949-50 - Douglas A. Stiffler -- IV. Family Strategies -- 13. The Ye Family in New China - Joseph W. Esherick -- 14. Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China - Gail Hershatter -- 15. Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948-56 - Sherman Cochran -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.