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Mao's last revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals.

LIBRA DS778.7 .M33 2006
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
MacFarquhar, Roderick.
Contributor:
Schoenhals, Michael.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China.
History.
Physical Description:
xiii, 693 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Summary:
In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. In often horrifying detail, they document the Hobbesian state that ensued. 57 halftone photos.
Contents:
1 The First Salvos 14
2 The Siege of Beijing 32
3 Confusion on Campuses 52
4 The Fifty Days 66
5 Mao's New Successor 86
6 The Red Guards 102
7 Red Terror 117
8 Confusion Nationwide 132
9 Shanghai's "January Storm" 155
10 Seizing Power 170
11 The Last Stand of the Old Guard 184
12 The Wuhan Incident 199
13 The May 16 Conspiracy 221
14 The End of the Red Guards 239
15 Cleansing the Class Ranks 253
16 Dispatching Liu Shaoqi 273
17 The Congress of Victors 285
18 War Scares 308
19 The Defection and Death of Lin Biao 324
20 Mao Becalmed 337
21 Zhou under Pressure 358
22 Deng Xiaoping Takes Over 379
23 The Gang of Four Emerges 396
24 The Tiananmen Incident of 1976 413
25 The Last Days of Chairman Mao 431.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [611]-658) and index.
ISBN:
0674023323
OCLC:
64427572
Publisher Number:
9780674023321

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