Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic is a book by Maurice Meisner.

The first edition of his book was finished just a few weeks before Mao Zedong's death in 1976.

A third edition, published in 1999, studied the origins and consequences of Chinese capitalism.

[1] Rebecca Karl wrote "[h]aving taught his Mao's China and After, I knew that a theoretically coherent and analytically challenging text was possible to use in the classroom.

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