Turbulent Decade : : A History of the Cultural Revolution /

Turbulent Decade : : A History of the Cultural Revolution / / Jiaqi Yan, Gao Gao; ed. by Daniel W. Y. Kwok.

Yan Jiaqi, one of the principal leaders of China's pro-democracy movement, and his wife, Gao Gao, a noted sociologist, set out to write a comprehensive narrative account of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, which occurred in the second decade after Mao Zedong and his comrades came to p...

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VerfasserIn:
Yan, Jiaqi,
Gao, Gao,
MitwirkendeR:
Gao, Gao,
Jiaqi, Yan,
HerausgeberIn:
Kwok, Daniel W. Y.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
Series:SHAPS Library of Translations
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Physical Description:1 online resource (688 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator’s Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the Revised Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Introduction: The Genesis of the Cultural Revolution
  • PART ONE: The “Need for More Personality Cult”
  • Chapter 1: Criticizing Hai Rui Dismissed from Office
  • Chapter 2: The Struggle around the Question of the Work Groups
  • Chapter 3: The Rise of the Red Guards and the Cult of the Individual
  • Chapter 4: “Declaring War on the Old World”
  • Chapter 5: Nationwide Networking
  • Chapter 6: “Bombarding the Command Post”
  • Chapter 7: Currents of Boycott and Resistance
  • Chapter 8: From “Down with Tao Zhu” to Retaliating against the February Adverse Current
  • Chapter 9: Drowning amidst Struggles
  • Chapter 10: The Last Days of Liu Shaoqi
  • PART TWO: The Rise and Fall of Lin Biao
  • Chapter 11: A Shortcut to the Peak of Power
  • Chapter 12: Eliminating Opponents of the Peak Theory
  • Chapter 13: Climbing the Leadership Ladder
  • Chapter 14: The Frenzy of False Accusations and Persecutions
  • Chapter 15: Shackling, Attacking, and Oppressing the People
  • Chapter 16: Lin Biao’s Rein on the Armed Forces
  • Chapter 17: The Lushan Conference [1970]
  • Chapter 18: The United Flotilla and the 5–7–1 Project
  • Chapter 19: The Failure of the Lin Biao Coup
  • Chapter 20: The September 13 Incident and Death of Lin Biao
  • PART THREE: Jiang Qing and the Politics of the Cultural Revolution
  • Chapter 21: New Life Created by the Cultural Revolution
  • Chapter 22: Special Cases, Forced Confessions, Fabricated Proof
  • Chapter 23: Erasing the Stains of the 1930s
  • Chapter 24: Escalation of Armed Struggle
  • Chapter 25: Arts Criticism and the “Revolution of Beijing Opera”
  • Chapter 26: The September 13 Incident and the “Trough”
  • Chapter 27: “Criticize Lin Biao, Confucius, and the Duke of Zhou”
  • Chapter 28: Deng Xiaoping’s Overall Rectification
  • Chapter 29: The Tiananmen Square Incident [1976]
  • Chapter 30: The Downfall of the Gang of Four
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Selected Further Readings
  • Index

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