TY - GEN AU - Gao, Mobo TI - Constructing China: clashing views of the People's Republic SN - 9780745399812 U1 - 951 G159C 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London : PB - Pluto Press KW - China KW - Foreign public opinion KW - Press coverage N1 - Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Scholarship, National Interest and Conceptual Paradigm -- 2. China, What China? -- 3. Chinese? Who are the Chinese? -- 4. Intellectual Poverty of the Chinese Neo-Enlightenment -- 5. The Coordinating Efforts in Constructing China -- 6. Why is the Cultural Revolution Cultural? -- 7. Why is the Cultural Revolution Revolutionary? The Legacies -- 8. Clashing Views of the Great Leap Forward -- 9. National Interest and Transnational Interest: The Political and Intellectual Elite in the West -- 10. Geopolitics and National Interest I: China's Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics -- 11. Geopolitics and National Interest II: The South China Sea Disputes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -