The world turned upside down : a history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution /
"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 &#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Published: | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. ©2016. |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Major events preceding the Cultural Revolution
- Lighting the fuse
- Removing obstructions
- The May Conference : formal launch of the Cultural Revolution
- Liu Shaoqi's anti-rightist movement
- Major incidents during the eleventh plenum
- The Red Guards and Red August
- Denouncing the bourgeois reactionary line
- The rise, actions, and demise of mass organizations
- The "Workers Command Post" and Shanghai's "January Storm"
- The "February Countercurrent" and the "February suppression of counterrevolutionaries"
- The armed formed forces and the "three supports and two militaries"
- "Red through every hill and vale"
- The Wuhan incident and Mao's strategic shift
- The baffling "May 16" investigation
- The cleansing of the class ranks
- The one strilke and three antis campaign
- Mass killings carried out by those in power
- The twelfth plenum of the Eighth Central Committe eliminating Liu Shaoqi
- The Ninth National Party Congress: from unity to division
- Fogged in on Lushan : the second plenum of the Ninth Central Committee
- Chen Boda's denunciation and Lin Biao's escape attempt
- Criticizing Lin Biao- as a leftist or rightist?
- Internal struggle during the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius
- From general overhaul to the campaign against Deng and right-deviating verdict-reversal
- The April Fifth Movement
- The curtain falls on the Cultural Revolution
- China's foreign relations during the Cultural Revolution
- Reform and opening under the bureaucratic system.