2. Political and Historical Dilemmas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. A Theatrical Prologue
6. 1. Afterlives of an “Upright Official” 11
7. 2. Political and Historical Dilemmas 26
8. 3. An Unresolved Controversy 48
9. Part II. Mao’s Anxiety and Resolve
10. 4. A Probable Defeat and Revisionism 91
11. 5. Shrinking the Cultural Superego 104
12. Part III. A Political Test for Class Politics
13. 6. Testing the Organization 141
14. 7. A Subjective Split in the Working Class 167
15. 8. Facing a Self-Defeat 204
16. Part IV. At the Edge of an Epochal Turning Point
17. 9. Intellectual Conditions for a Political Assessment 239
18. 10. Foundations of Deng Xiaoping’s Strategy 263
19. Notes 285
20. Bibliography 323
21. Index 343