The Seventy-Year Ebb and Flow of Chinese Library and Information Services, May 4, 1919 to the Late 1980s

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Preface / Alison Crook

pt. 1. Antecedents to 1976.
Backgrounds: pre- and post-liberation
Pre-liberation Marxist library and information services to 1949
Post Revolution Reconstruction: 1949-1953
The First Five-Year Plan: 1953-1957
The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960, and its aftermath, The New Economic Policy, 1961-1966
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

pt. 2. The Four Modernizations Commenced: 1977 to 1989.
Context: Fall of the Gang of Four and Commencement of Reform
Ideology and libraries
Library and information management
Professional association and discourse
Library education and training
Materials availability
Materials organization
Library automation and technology
Facilities
International outreach and exchange