Previous owner's signature front endpaper, lettering on dust-jacket's backstrip faded. ; 16 x 24 cm.; pg. xviii, 745 ; Originally published 1957. Research Institute on the Sino-Soviet Bloc Book Series No. 1. Preface, bibliography, index; list of tables, charts and map on endpapers. "This new edition of the authoritative text analyzes developments in Communist China to August 1961. In addition to a comprehensive revision throughout the book, its more than 700 pages include several completely rewritten chapters such as those on the Party, the commune system, 'the world socialist system', relations with the uncommitted Asian-African countries and relations with the United States. Other sections have been added to include such current topics as the Thought of Mao Tse-tung, the anti-rightest campaign, the great leap forward, the blooming and contending policy, the question of separate roads to socialism, and the question of war and peace. " Volume II--which is not present--is entitled COMMUNIST CHINA TODAY: DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS, DATA, AND CHRONOLOGY. Hucker #934

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