Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals

Mao's Last Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which Chinese publications conceal). In its critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its portrait of a culture in turmoil, this book offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in Chinese history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1094g
• ISBN-13: 9780674027480
• ISBN-10: 0674027485
• Artikelnr.: 23250649

Autorenporträt

Roderick MacFarquhar was Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, and Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents.
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The First Salvos
The Siege of Beijing
Confusion on Campuses
The Fifty Days
Mao's New Successor
The Red Guards
Red Terror
Confusion Nationwide
Shanghai's "January Storm''
Seizing Power
The Last Stand of the Old Guard
The Wuhan Incident
The May 16 Conspiracy
The End of the Red Guards
Cleansing the Class Ranks
Dispatching Liu Shaoqi
The Congress of Victors
War Scares
The Defection and Death of Lin Biao
Mao Becalmed
Zhou under Pressure
Deng Xiaoping Takes Over
The Gang of Four Emerges
The Tiananmen Incident of 1976
The Last Days of Chairman Mao
Conclusion
Glossary of Names and Identities
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index