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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication. By Xing Lu. Columbia: University of Southern Carolina Press, 2004; pp xiii + 235. $49.95.

Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is a fresh, highly personalized, and provocative assessment of what remains the most enigmatic period in modern Chinese history. The author takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to examine the Cultural Revolution's symbolic language and ritualistic prac...

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