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The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
Chinese Socialism in Crisis
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Yiching Wu
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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The Cultural Revolution began from above, yet it was students and workers at the grassroots who advanced the movement's radical possibilities by acting and thinking for themselves. Resolving to suppress the resulting crisis, Mao set events in motion in 1968 that left out in the cold those rebels who had taken it most seriously, Yiching Wu shows.
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Wu Yiching :
Yiching Wu teaches East Asian studies, history, and anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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The Cultural Revolution at the Margins aims to make the Cultural Revolution thinkable, to rescue it from the relentless effort both in the PRC and abroad to consign it to the proverbial dustbin of history as an aberration or a disaster. Yiching Wu’s study is based on rich materials, some previously unavailable, and is theoretically well-informed and sophisticated. It is a serious intervention not only in discussions of the CR and the Chinese revolution, but also in discussions of socialist politics.
-- Arif Dirlik, author of Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China
-- Arif Dirlik, author of Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins is a carefully researched and equally carefully thought-out account of the ideological struggles of the Cultural Revolution and its eventual suppression by a restored Party apparatus between 1966 and 1968. Using a sophisticated theoretical methodology, Wu makes a case for a compelling reinterpretation of the import of the familiar events of the CR. This book will eventually take its place as an important new analysis of the CR, and of how events of the time continue to resonate in Chinese political discourse.
-- Ted Huters, author of Bringing the World Home
-- Ted Huters, author of Bringing the World Home
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CONTENTS
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FIGURES AND TABLES
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ABBREVIATIONS
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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1. THE UNTHINKABLE REVOLUTION
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2. ENEMIES FROM THE PAST
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3. FROM THE GOOD BLOOD TO THE RIGHT TO REBEL
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4. REVOLUTIONARY ALCHEMY
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5. REVOLUTION IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION
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6. COPING WITH CRISIS IN THE WAKE OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
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Epilogue. FROM REVOLUTION TO REFORM
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Appendix: List of Selected Chinese Characters
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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June 9, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780674419858
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361
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4 halftones, 1 graph, 3 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780674419858
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