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Author Wu, Yiching, author.

Title The cultural revolution at the margins : Chinese socialism in crisis / Yiching Wu.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 335 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
Contents Introduction : the unthinkable revolution -- Enemies from the past : bureaucracy, class, and Mao's "continuous revolution" -- From the good blood to the right to rebel : politics of class and citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard movement -- Revolutionary alchemy : "economism" and the making of Shanghai's "January revolution" -- Revolution is dead, long live the revolution : popular radicalization of the cultural revolution in Hunan -- Coping with crisis in the wake of the cultural revolution : the historical origins of Chinese postsocialism -- Epilogue : from revolution to reform : rethinking the cultural revolution in the present.
Summary "The Cultural Revolution began as a "revolution from above," and Mao had only a tenuous relationship with the Red Guard students and workers who responded to his call. Yet it was these young rebels at the grassroots who advanced the Cultural Revolution's more radical possibilities, Yiching Wu argues, and who not only acted for themselves but also transgressed Maoism by critically reflecting on broader issues concerning Chinese socialism. As China's state machinery broke down and the institutional foundations of the PRC were threatened, Mao resolved to suppress the crisis. Leaving out in the cold the very activists who had taken its transformative promise seriously, the Cultural Revolution devoured its children and exhausted its political energy. The mass demobilizations of 1968-69, Wu shows, were the starting point of a series of crisis-coping maneuvers to contain and neutralize dissent, producing immense changes in Chinese society a decade later."--Publisher's description
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Subject Hong wei bing.
Hong wei bing.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Protest movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century.
Protest movements.
China -- Beijing.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Student movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century.
Political violence -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism -- China -- 20th century.
Socialism.
Student movements.
Political violence.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
China.
HISTORY -- Revolutionary.
Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Wu, Yiching. Cultural revolution at the margins. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014 9780674728790 (DLC) 2013042654 (OCoLC)861478407
ISBN 9780674419858 (electronic book)
0674419855 (electronic book)
9780674728790
0674728793