China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-69

China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-69
Title China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-69 PDF eBook
Author Michael Schoenhals
Publisher Routledge
Pages 346
Release 2015-03-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 131747497X

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Mao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems.

China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969

China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969
Title China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 PDF eBook
Author Michael Schoenhals
Publisher M.E. Sharpe
Pages 444
Release 1996-08-28
Genre History
ISBN 9780765633033

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Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution thirty years ago. This important new documentary history of that calamitous event presents a selection of key primary documents -- many of which are made available here for the first time -- dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems. Comprehensive in scope, this detailed work --covers inter alia the launching of the movement, the Red Guards, the inquisition of party members accused of taking the capitalist road, and the devastating impact of these events on traditional culture, the economy, and China's national defense; --offers a section of recollections by victims and perpetrators; --enhances the documents with detailed commentary, a chronology, biographies, and photographs.

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Title Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party PDF eBook
Author Ying Chang Compestine
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 183
Release 2009-09-29
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1429924551

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The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China. Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan, and her father teaches her English as they listen to Voice of America every evening on the radio. But when one of Mao's political officers moves into a room in their apartment, Ling begins to witness the gradual disintegration of her world. In an atmosphere of increasing mistrust and hatred, Ling fears for the safety of her neighbors, and soon, for herself and her family. For the next four years, Ling will suffer more horrors than many people face in a lifetime. Will she be able to grow and blossom under the oppressive rule of Chairman Mao? Or will fighting to survive destroy her spirit—and end her life? Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Mao's Last Revolution

Mao's Last Revolution
Title Mao's Last Revolution PDF eBook
Author Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 742
Release 2009-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 0674040414

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Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

A Social History of Maoist China

A Social History of Maoist China
Title A Social History of Maoist China PDF eBook
Author Felix Wemheuer
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 349
Release 2019-03-28
Genre History
ISBN 1107123704

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This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

Mao Cult

Mao Cult
Title Mao Cult PDF eBook
Author Daniel Leese
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 323
Release 2011-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 1139498118

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Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nationalists' elevation of Chiang Kai-shek. However, they did not anticipate that Mao would use this symbolic power to mobilize Chinese youth to rebel against party bureaucracy itself. The result was anarchy and when the army was called in it relied on mandatory rituals of worship such as daily reading of the Little Red Book to restore order. Such fascinating detail sheds light not only on the personality cult of Mao, but also on hero-worship in other traditions.

The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution
Title The Cultural Revolution PDF eBook
Author Michel Oksenberg
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 141
Release 2021-01-19
Genre History
ISBN 0472038354

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The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values and strategy on the other. The Cultural Revolution collects four papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968. Michel Oksenberg opens the volume by examining the impact of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups including peasants, industrial managers and workers, intellectuals, students, party and government officials, and the military. Carl Riskin is concerned with the economic effects of the revolution, taking up production trends in agriculture and industry, movements in foreign trade, and implications of Masoist economic policies for China’s economic growth. Robert A. Scalapino turns to China’s foreign policy behavior during this period, arguing that Chinese Communists in general, and Mao in particular, formed foreign policy with a curious combination of cosmic, utopian internationalism and practical ethnocentrism rooted both in Chinese tradition and Communist experience. Ezra F. Vogel closes the volume by exploring the structure of the conflict, the struggles between factions, and the character of those factions.