The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History

By: Andrew G. Walder (Editor), Paul G. Pickowicz (Editor), Joseph W. Esherick (Editor)

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Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies.

The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential "revolutionary" leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.

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"By probing the extent of the revolution across different regions in China and drawing attention to its later development after the Red Guards movement petered out, this work greatly broadens knowledge of the revolution and modern Chinese history in general." - CHOICE "The questions raised by the painful realities illuminated by these important essays are worth taking seriously." - The Chinese Historical Review "This volume is a valuable collection of essays on the Chinese Cultural Revolution It enjoys many new sources of information, which [were] not available for the previous scholarship on the history of the Cultural Revolution. The new information and new interpretations of the events as a result of it, alone were enough to make this volume a very useful reference for students of the Cultural Revolution in particular and the Chinese politics in general." - The Journal of Chinese Political Science

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History: An Introduction	p. 1
Passion, Reflection, and Survival: Political Choices of Red Guards at Qinghua University, June 1966-July 1968	p. 29
To Protect and Preserve: Resisting the Destroy the Four Olds Campaign, 1966-1967	p. 64
Mass Killings in the Cultural Revolution: A Study of Three Provinces	p. 96
The Death of a Landlord: Moral Predicament in Rural China, 1968-1969	p. 124
Staging Xiaojinzhuang: The City in the Countryside, 1974-1976	p. 153
Labor Created Humanity: Cultural Revolution Science on Its Own Terms	p. 185
To Be Somebody: Li Qinglin, Run-of-the-Mill Cultural Revolution Showstopper	p. 211
The Sublime and the Profane: A Comparative Analysis of Two Fictional Narratives about Sent-down Youth	p. 240
Contributors	p. 267
Character List	p. 271
Notes	p. 279
Selected Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 369
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