Soviet Reinterpretations of Chinese Social History

Study of China in the Soviet Union has just experienced a decade of rapid growth and fundamental change. Until the early 1960's the overwhelming reality for Soviet specialists was the fact that the Chinese revolution had succeeded-China had joined the camp of Soviet allies building socialism. Under these conditions, interpretations of the society which emerged after 1949 and of the historic circumstances which gave rise to revolution reflected both a need to reaffirm doctrinal principles about the uniformities of history and a hesitancy to contradict official Chinese communist positions. By the mid-1960's these limitations had been removed. Soviet sinologists repudiated the previous period for the "uncritical use of tendentious Chinese materials" and switched abruptly to demonstrating what had gone wrong in China, i.e., the abnormalities of history. The search was begun for those exceptional qualities of China's past which had deflected its advance to socialism and before that to capitalism

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• The religious and intellectual background

  Open Access•Michael Loewe•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• Philosophy and religion from Han to Sui

  Open Access•Paul Demiéville•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• Ch'in and Han law

  Open Access•A F P Hulsewe•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• Han foreign relations

  Open Access•Ying-Shih Yü, Yu Ying-shih•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The Former Han dynasty

  Open Access•Michael Loewe•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The state and empire of Ch'in

  Open Access•Derk Bodde•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The structure and practice of government

  Open Access•Michael Loewe•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• Wang Mang, the restoration of the Han dynasty, and Later Han

  Open Access•Hans Bielenstein•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The concept of sovereignty

  Open Access•Michael Loewe•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The economic and social history of Former Han

  Open Access•Nishijima Sadao•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The economic and social history of Later Han

  Open Access•Patricia Ebrey, Patricia Buckley Ebrey•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• The Cambridge History of China

  Open Access•Denis Crispin Twitchett, John W Chaffee et al.•The Cambridge History of China•1986

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• Invocations of Chinese Traditions in International Relations

  Open Access•Gilbert Rozman•Journal of Chinese Political…•2012

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• Ideological Campaigns in the People's Republic of China (1949-1966)

  L S Kiuzadzhian•Chinese Sociology & Anthropology•1970

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