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Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the findings of the first edition.
List of contents
Introduction to the First Edition; Part 1 Doctrine, Methods and Historical Development; Chapter 1 Rectification Doctrine; Chapter 2 The Rectification Process: Methods, Sanctions and Effectiveness; Chapter 3 The Origins of Rectification; Part 2 Rectification According to the Norms, 1950–1957; Chapter 4 Rectification and the Consolidation of Power, 1950–1953; Chapter 5 The Purge of Gao Gang and Rao Shushi; Chapter 6 The Hundred Flowers Experiment; Chapter 7 The Anti-Rightist Campaign; Part 3 The Norms Under Stress: Rectification and Purging, 1957–1965; Chapter 8 Rectification and the Great Leap Forward; Chapter 9 The Dismissal of Peng Dehuai; Chapter 10 Rectification and “Verdict Reversal” during the Crisis Years, 1960–1962; Chapter 11 Socialist Education, 1962–1965; concl Conclusion;
About the author
A graduate of Amherst College, Frederick C. Teiwes received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. From 1969 to 1976 he first taught at Cornell University and then held a research appointment at The Australian National University. Since 1976 he has been on the faculty of the University of Sydney where he currently holds a Personal Chair in Chinese Politics as well as a five-year research appointment as an Australian Senior Research Fellow.Since the publication of the first edition of Politics and Purges in China in 1979, Professor Teiwes has been widely recognized as a leading analyst of Chinese elite politics. His subsequent major works include Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China (1984), and Politics at Mao's Court (1990). He is currently working on a number of projects concerning CCP elite politics, most notably a reinterpretation of the rise and fall of Lin Biao (with Warren Sun).
