Policies of Chaos : : The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution / / Lynn T. White.
The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is often blamed on a few leaders in Beijing, or on long-term egalitarian ideals, or on communist or Chinese political cultures. Lynn White shows, however, that the chaos resulted mainly from reactions by masses of individuals and small groups to three...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Romanizations
- CHAPTER 1. What the Cultural Revolution Was, and Why It Happened
- CHAPTER 2. Workers and Managers: New Democracy vs. Socialism, 1949-1956
- CHAPTER 3. Students and Residents: Policing vs. Patriotism, 1949-1956
- CHAPTER 4. Workers and Managers: The Transition to Socialism, 1956-1957
- CHAPTER 5. Students and Residents: Flowers, Coercion, and Minds, 1956-1957
- CHAPTER 6. The Great Leap Forward and Salvation by Work, 1958-1962
- CHAPTER 7. Exhaustion in the Leap among Residents and Intellectuals, 1958-1962
- CHAPTER 8. Tightening Control over the Economy, 1962-1966
- CHAPTER 9. A Standardized System for Urban Statuses, 1962-1966
- CHAPTER 10. Maoists Try to Remake Management, 1966-1968
- CHAPTER 11. Conflict among Local Symbol Makers, 1966-1968
- CHAPTER 12. Conclusion: Causes and Lessons of the Tragedy
- Bibliography
- Index