China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s

✍ Scribed by Roberts, Priscilla; Westad, Odd Arne

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China’s relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China’s choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Priscilla Roberts)....Pages 1-30
Untrusting and Untrusted: Mao’s China at the Crossroads, 1969 (Sergey Radchenko)....Pages 31-54
Building China’s 1970s Green Revolution: Responding to Population Growth, Decreasing Arable Land, and Capital Depreciation (Joshua Eisenman)....Pages 55-86
China and South Asia in the 1970s: Contrasting Trajectories (Jon Wilson)....Pages 87-109
Reimagining and Repositioning China in International Politics: The Role of Sports in China’s Long 1970s (Xu Guoqi)....Pages 111-133
From China’s “Barefoot Doctor” to Alma Ata: The Primary Health Care Movement in the Long 1970s (Xun Zhou)....Pages 135-157
China’s Economic Statecraft in the 1970s (Shu Guang Zhang)....Pages 159-180
The Roots of a Globalized Relationship: Western Knowledge of the Chinese Economy and US–China Relations in the Long 1970s (Federico Pachetti)....Pages 181-203
Sino-Australian Relations in the Long 1970s (Nicholas Thomas)....Pages 205-231
1967 as the Turning Point in Hong Kong–British–PRC Economic Relations (Valeria Zanier, Roberto Peruzzi)....Pages 233-255
Crisis or Opportunity? Britain, China, and the Decolonization of Hong Kong in the Long 1970s (Chi-Kwan Mark)....Pages 257-277
“Bat lau dung laai”: Shifting Hong Kong Perspectives Toward the Vietnamese Boatpeople (John D. Wong)....Pages 279-302
Bringing the Chinese Back In: The Role of Quasi-Private Institutions in Britain and the United States (Priscilla Roberts)....Pages 303-325
Conclusion (Odd Arne Westad)....Pages 327-332
Back Matter ....Pages 333-348

✦ Subjects

World history