Mao's China and after : a history of the People's Republic / Maurice Meisner.

Part 1: The revolutionary heritage. Western imperialism and the weakness of Chinese social classes ; The defection of the intellectuals ; The abortiveness of bourgeois and proletarian revolution ; The Maoist revolution and the Yan'an legacy
Part 2: The new order, 1949-1955. The new state ; The cities: the rise and fall of national capitalism ; Land reform: the bourgeois revolution in the countryside ; The social and political consequences of industrialization ; Agricultural collectivization, 1953-1957
Part 3: Utopianism, 1956-1960. The hundred flowers: socialism, bureaucracy, and freedom ; Permanent revolution: the ideological origins of the Great Leap ; Economics of the Great Leap Forward ; The people's communes and the "transition to communism": 1958-1960
Part 4: The Thermidorian reaction, 1960-1965. The bureaucratic restoration ; The new economics policy, 1961-1965 ; The socialist education movement, 1962-1965
Part 5: The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, 1966-1976. The concept of cultural revolution ; The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 ; Social results of the Cultural Revolution ; The aftermath of the cultural revolution and the close of the Maoist era, 1969-1976
Part 6: Deng Xiaoping and the origins of Chinese capitalism, 1976-1998. The legacies of the Maoist era ; The rise of Deng Xiaoping and the critique of Maoism ; Market reforms and the development of capitalism ; The struggle for democracy ; The end of the reign of Deng Xiaoping: China in the 1990s.