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| Named Person: | Shaoqi Liu; Shao-ch'i Liu; Shaoqi Liu |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lowell Dittmer |
| ISBN: | 0520025741 9780520025745 |
| OCLC Number: | 1216450 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 386 p. : graphs ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | PART I: LIU'S FALL: Introduction -- The life and times of Liu Shao-ch"i -- Prologue : the gathering storm -- The fall of Liu Shao-ch'i -- Liu Shao-ch'i in the Cultural Revolution -- PART II: TWO ROADS: Liu Shao-ch'i and Mao Tse-Tung : a comparison of character, political style, and policy -- The "capitalist road" : critique and megacritique -- PART III: CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM: Toward a theory of mass criticism -- Mass criticism and mass line -- The structural evolution of criticism and self-criticism. |
| Responsibility: | Lowell Dittmer. |
Abstract:
"Riding a wave of criticism unprecedented in intensity or scope. China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an epoch-making "struggle between the lines" to determine the direction of national development at a critical transition point. Leader of the triumphant "proletarian revolutionary line" was Mao Tse-Tung; leader of the vanguished "bourgeois reactionary line" was erstwhile Chief of State Liu Shao-ch'i, a prominent Communist theorist and organizer who had served as Mao's "close comrade-in-arms: for more than twenty years and was his designed successor. ... Mr. Ditmer illuminates the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development."
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- Liu, Shaoqi, -- 1898-1969.
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- Communist self-criticism.
- Maoïsme.
- Culturele Revolutie.
- Liu, Shao-ch'i, -- 1900-1974.
- Autocritique communiste.
- Chine -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1949-
- Liu, Shaoqi.
- Kritik.
- China -- Kulturrevolution.
