by Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish
University of Chicago Press, 1984
Cloth: 978-0-226-89546-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-89549-9
Library of Congress Classification HT147.C48W59 1984
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.760951

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic rigidity, low production, and more.