The World Turned Upside Down
A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.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 sc…
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Weitere Autoren: Mosher, Stacy (Übers.) / Jian, Guo (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-80075-059-3
- EAN: 9781800750593
- Produktnummer: 35920512
- Verlag: Swift Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 768 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964, and worked for Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001. He was a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu (Chronicles of History), an official journal that regularly skirts censorship with articles on controversial political topics. He is the author of the book Tombstone.
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