Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Autorentext
Lowell Dittmer

Klappentext
The chief target of China's infamous Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi is one of the tragic figures of the Chinese revolution By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, Lowell Dittmer illuminates not only the life and fate of this fascinating leader but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development In this new edition, Mr Dittmer tells the end of the story -- the death of Liu Shaoqi and the fate of Wang Guangmei (Liu's wife and a notable figure herself) and other members of Liu's family and inner circle -- and the legacy and relevance of Liu's contribution to China in the late twentieth century.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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

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