This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of Chinas socialist institutional construction respectively. Taking time as the warp and events as the weft, it tries to summarize the fundamental changes across the past 200 years in China, which the author believes have been a glorious journey from poverty and weakness to rejuvenation. In context, this book tries to rationalize the formation of the governing laws of the Communist Party of China, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of human historical development. It aims to provide a perspective for the international community to understand Chinas fundamental ideal of peaceful development.
Chapter 1 Changes Unseen in a Century.- Chapter 2 Sleeping Giant Has
Waken Up.- Chapter 3 The History that Keeps Moving Forward.- Chapter 4 For
the Foundation of the Peoples Republic of China.- Chapter 5 The Tortuous
Exploration of Modernization.- Chapter 6 The Great Awakening of the Reform
and Opening-up.- Chapter 7 Making Strikes to Catch up the Times.- Chapter 8
Entering the 21st Century with a New Posture.- Chapter 9 Opening up a New
Era.- Chapter 10 A New Leap in the Sinicization of Marxism.- Chapter 11 For a
Better Life of the People.
Chapter 12 Winning the Three Critical Battles
Against Potential Risk, Poverty, and Pollution.- Chapter 13 Using
Self-reform to Lead Social Reform.- Chapter 14 Solving the Hard Problem of
National Governance.- Chapter 15 Warm and Cold, We Share Together.
Li Jie is distinguished professor of School of Marxism, Tsinghua University. He has served as deputy director of Documentation Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, vice president of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies and president of Qiushi magazine. His main research fields are the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong's life and thought, and Marxismsinicization, etc. He has published monographs such as "Mao Zedong's Historical Contribution to the Peoples Republic of China," "Mao Zedong and Internal Affairs and Diplomacy of the Peoples Republic of China, How did the New Leap of Marxism Sinicization Come, and China has a Mao Zedong."