Binding: Paperback
Description: China's decade - long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins development and conclusion. Drawing upon a vital trove of scholarship memoirs and popular culture this Very Short Introduction illuminates this complex often obscure and still controversial movement. Moving beyond the figure of Mao Zedong Richard Curt Kraus links Beijing's elite politics to broader aspects of society and culture highlighting many changes in daily life employment and the economy. Kraus also situates this very nationalist outburst of Chinese radicalism within a global context showing that the Cultural Revolution was mirrored in the radical youth movement that swept much of the world and that had imagined or emotional links to China's red guards. Yet it was also during the Cultural Revolution that China and the United States tempered their long hostility one of the innovations in this period that sowed the seeds for China's subsequent decades of spectacular economic growth. About THE Series: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket - sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Title: The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Kraus Richard Curt (Professor Emeritus Of Political Science Professor Emeritus Of Political Science University Of Oregon Portland Or)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199740550
Pages: 152 Pages, 10 B/W Halftones
Publication Date: 1/17/2012
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions