Chinese Cultural Revolution As History

Zusatztext "This volume is a valuable collection of essays on the Chinese Cultural Revolution It enjoys many new sources of information, which [were] not available for the previous scholarship on the history of the Cultural Revolution. The new information and new interpretations of the events as a result of it, alone were enough to make this volume a very useful reference for students of the Cultural Revolution in particular and the Chinese politics in general." Informationen zum Autor Joseph W. Esherick holds the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Paul G. Pickowicz is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Andrew G. Walder is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center. Klappentext Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. > Zusammenfassung Based on unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76), and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary people at the base of rural and urban society.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph W. (EDT)/ Pickowicz Esherick, Joseph W. Pickowicz Esherick
• Assisted by: Joseph Esherick (Editor), Joseph W Esherick (Editor), Joseph W. Esherick (Editor), Paul Pickowicz (Editor), Paul G Pickowicz (Editor), Paul G. Pickowicz (Editor), Andrew Walder (Editor), Andrew G Walder (Editor), Andrew G. Walder (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2006
• EAN: 9780804753494
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5349-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous