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Mao's last revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals.
LIBRA DS778.7 .M33 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacFarquhar, Roderick.
- 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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