In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the Pe

Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution

Presents an account of the Chinese Civil War and what the communist victory meant to Chinese society and the Chinese people.