THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS

From: The China Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Unger, Jonathan | Copyright information

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS Jonathan Unger* The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited by Joseph Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz and Andrew G. Walder. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. x + 382 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback).

Because of the headlong rush of events in China since Mao's death, research about the Cultural Revolution turmoil of 1966-68 and about the 1970s period of radical policy-making has received short shrift during recent deca...

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