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The cultural revolution at the margins : Chinese socialism in crisis /

"The Cultural Revolution began as a "revolution from above," and Mao had only a tenuous relationship with the Red Guard students and workers who responded to his call. Yet it was these young rebels at the grassroots who advanced the Cultural Revolution's more radical possibilitie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wu, Yiching (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the unthinkable revolution
  • Enemies from the past : bureaucracy, class, and Mao's "continuous revolution"
  • From the good blood to the right to rebel : politics of class and citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard movement
  • Revolutionary alchemy : "economism" and the making of Shanghai's "January revolution"
  • Revolution is dead, long live the revolution : popular radicalization of the cultural revolution in Hunan
  • Coping with crisis in the wake of the cultural revolution : the historical origins of Chinese postsocialism
  • Epilogue : from revolution to reform : rethinking the cultural revolution in the present.