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Rise of the red engineers : the Cultural Revolution and the origins of China's new class / Joel Andreas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andreas, Joel.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
- Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences)--China--History--20th century.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Social classes--China--History--20th century.
- Social classes.
- Power (Social sciences)--China--History--20th century.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Engineers--China--History--20th century.
- Engineers.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (532 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.
- Contents:
- Political foundations of class power
- Cultural foundations of class power
- Cradle of red engineers
- Political versus cultural power
- Uniting to defend political and cultural power
- Supervising the red engineers
- Eliminating the distinction between mental and manual labor
- Worker-peasant-soldier students
- Rebuilding the foundations of political and cultural power
- Triumph of the red engineers
- Technocracy and capitalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804771108
- 0804771103
- OCLC:
- 793166872
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