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

Notes: 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