Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Yang, Jisheng, 1940-

Publication

• New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mosher, Stacy
• Guo, Jian, 1953-

Description

xlii, 722 pages : map; 24 cm

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"--
• 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

Uniform Title

Tian di fan fu. English

Alternative Title

• Tian di fan fu.
• History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Subject

• 1966-1976
• Political culture > China > History
• Communism and culture > China
• HISTORY / Asia / General
• Communism and culture
• Political culture
• China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
• China

Genre/Form

History.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.
• 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 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 -- Critizing 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.

Call Number

JFE 21-3654

ISBN

• 9780374293130
• 0374293139

LCCN

• 2020039387
• 40030378231

OCLC

1193558940

Author

Yang, Jisheng, 1940- author.

Title

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.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1966-1976

Added Author

Translation of: Yang, Jisheng, 1940- Tian di fan fu.

Mosher, Stacy, translator, editor.

Guo, Jian, 1953- translator, editor.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Yang, Jisheng, 1940- Tian di fan fu Hong Kong : Cosmos Books, 2016 (OCoLC) 966436667

Other Standard Identifier

40030378231

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3654