FOUR GREAT TITLES 

China has undergone a stunning transformation since the 1949 revolution and in particular since the economic reform period begun in 1978. But how do Marxists explain this astonishing change? Should socialists support or oppose today's People's Republic of China? These books from Praxis Press set out to provide answers both by analysing the underlying principles of 'socialism with Chinese characteristics' and its application.

Storming the Heavens by Jenny Clegg is a landmark Marxist study of China's agrarian question. Drawing on decades of research, it examines land, class and revolution, analysing peasant struggles, imperialism, and the Communist Party's evolving strategy. Essential for understanding China's revolutionary path and Marxism's adaptation to Chinese conditions.

This study of the Communist Party of China's strategy for unleashing peasant revolution analyses the nature of the Chinese peasantry, their goals and collective actions, the key social contradictions of pre-revolutionary China and the relationship between the communist revolutionary movement and the peasantry. It offers an overview of the theoretical insights of Mao Zedong in particular.

China has achieved this unprecedented development in less than a century, yet these achievements are frequently misinterpreted or distorted. People’s China at 75, organised by the co-editors of Friends of Socialist China, aims to challenge these misconceptions and provide the political, historical and economic context that best explains China’s astonishing rise.

Carlos Martinez argues strongly for the continuing relevance of socialism in China in The East is Still Red and calls for socialists to oppose imperialism's New Cold War against the country. 

In China's Great Road, John Ross puts China's achievements in global and historical perspective, showing that China has transformed the lives of the greatest number of people for the better in the history of humanity. Ross also shows how China's rise has created a new international balance of forces that favour peace and socialism.

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