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The world turned upside down :

by Yang, Jisheng
, Tian di fan fu Edition statement:First paperback edition. Published by : Picador (New York) Physical details: xlii, 722 pages : map ; 21 cm ISBN:1250829704; 9781250829702. Year: 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Major events preceding the Cultural Revolution -- Lighting the fuse -- Removing obstructions -- The May Conference : formal launch of the Cultural Revolution -- Liu Shaoqi's Anti-Rightist Movement -- Major incidents during the eleventh plenum -- The Red Guards and Red August -- Denouncing the bourgeois reactionary line -- The rise : actions, and demise of mass organizations -- The "Workers Command Post" and Shanghai's "January Storm" -- The "February Countercurrent" and the "February suppression of counterrevolutionaries" -- The armed formed forces and the "three supports and two militaries" -- "Red through every hill and vale" -- The Wuhan incident and Mao's strategic shift -- The baffling "May 16" investigation -- The cleansing of the class ranks -- The one strike and three antis campaign -- Mass killings carried out by those in power -- The twelfth plenum of the Eighth Central Committee eliminating Liu Shaoqi -- The Ninth National Party Congress: from unity to division -- Fogged in on Lushan : the second plenum of the Ninth Central Committee -- Chen Boda's denunciation and Lin Biao -- as a leftist or rightist? -- Internal struggle during the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius -- From general overhaul to the campaign against Deng and right-deviating verdict-reversal -- The April Fifth Movement -- The curtain falls on the Cultural Revolution -- China's foreign relations during the Cultural Revolution -- Reform and opening under the bureaucratic system.

"Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and a Mao-style cult of personality."--

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