The world turned upside down : a history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese and edited by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Jisheng, 1940- author.

Contributor:

Mosher, Stacy, translator, editor.

Guo, Jian, 1953- translator, editor.

Standardized Title:

Tian di fan fu. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

China.

History.

Political culture--China--History.

Political culture.

Communism and culture--China.

Communism and culture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xlii, 722 pages : map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"The only complete history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, 'The World Turned Upside Down' makes a crucial contribution to understanding the Cultural Revolution and its lasting influence today"-- Provided by publisher.

As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy. Yang makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Major Events Preceding the Cultural Revolution

2. Lighting the Fuse

3. Removing Obstructions

4. The May Conference: Formal Launch of the Cultural Revolution

5. Liu Shaoqi's Anti-Rightist Movement

6. Major Incidents During the Eleventh Plenum

7. The Red Guards and Red August

8. Denouncing the Bourgeois Reactionary Line

9. The Rise, Actions, and Demise of Mass Organizations

10. The "Workers Command Post" and Shanghai's "January Storm"

11. The "February Countercurrent" and the "February Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries"

12. The Armed Forces and the "Three Supports and Two Militaries"

13. "Red Through Every Hill and Vale"

14. The Wuhan Incident and Mao's Strategic Shift

15. The Baffling "May 16" Investigation

16. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks

17. The One Strike and Three Antis Campaign

18. Mass Killings Carried Out by Those in Power

19. The Twelfth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee: Eliminating Liu Shaoqi

20. The Ninth National Party Congress: From Unity to Division

21. Fogged in on Lushan: The Second Plenum of the Ninth Central Committee

22. Chen Boda's Denunciation and Lin Biao's Escape Attempt

23. Criticizing Lin Biao

-As a Leftist or Rightist?

24. Internal Struggle During the Campaign to Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius

25. From General Overhaul to the Campaign Against Deng and Right-Deviating Verdict-Reversal

26. The April Fifth Movement

27. The Curtain Falls on the Cultural Revolution

28. China's Foreign Relations During the Cultural Revolution

29. Reform and Opening Under the Bureaucratic System.

Notes:

Originally published in Chinese by Cosmos Books, Hong Kong, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374293130

0374293139

OCLC:

1193558940