Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

by Lowell Dittmer

Overview

By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, this text illuminates not only the life and fate of Liu Shaoqi, but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverting exigencies of economic modernization and political development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563249525
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/1997
Series:	East Gate Books
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lowell Dittmer

Table of Contents

I: Liu's Fall; 1: Introduction; 2: The Life and Times of Liu Shaoqi; 3: Prologue: The Storm Gathers; 4: The Fall of Liu Shaoqi; 5: Liu Shaoqi in the Cultural Revolution; II: Two Roads; 6: Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong: A Comparison of Character, Political Style, and Policy; 7: The “Capitalist Road”: Critique and Metacritique; III: Criticism and Self-Criticism; 8: Toward a Theory of Mass Criticism; 9: Mass Criticism and Mass Line; 10: The Structural Evolution of Criticism and Self-Criticism; Afterword

Editorial Reviews

Focusing on the chief target of the 1996-69 Cultural Revolution, Dittmer (political science, U. of California-Berkeley) illuminates not only Liu's life and fate, but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development. The new edition incorporates the 1980 attempt to rehabilitate Liu (1898-1969) and recent thought on the Cultural Revolution. Paper edition (unseen) $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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