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The cultural revolution : a people's history, 1962-1976 / Frank Dikötter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dikötter, Frank, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Atrocities.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- China.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Atrocities.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part One: the early years (1962-1966). Two dictators
- Never forget class struggle
- War on the cultural front
- Clique of four
- Part Two: the Red years (1966-1968). Poster wars
- Red August
- Destroying the old world
- Mao cult
- Linking up
- Rebels and royalists
- Enter the Army
- The arms race
- Quenching the fires
- Part Three: the Black years (1968-1971). Cleansing the ranks
- Up the mountains, down to the villages
- Preparing for war
- Learning from Dazhai
- More purges
- Fall of an heir
- Part Four: the grey years (1971-1976). Recovery
- The silent revolution
- The second society
- Reversals
- Aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-379) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1632864215
- 9781632864215
- OCLC:
- 918283824
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