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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kraus, Richard Curt. Cultural revolution. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011025599 (OCoLC)726821258 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Curt Kraus |
ISBN: | 9780199921041 0199921040 9780199912940 0199912947 |
OCLC Number: | 764413479 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 138 pages) : illustrations, map |
Contents: | China's unfinished revolution -- "Politics in command" -- Culture : "destroy the old, establish the new" -- An economy of "self-reliance" -- "We have friends all over the world" : the Cultural Revolution's global context -- Coming to terms with the Cultural Revolution -- Timeline -- Major actors in the Cultural Revolution. |
Series Title: | Very short introductions. |
Responsibility: | Richard Curt Kraus. |
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"This remarkably full and efficient account provides a basic narrative of the Cultural Revolution, and then discusses in greater depth its politics, culture, economics, foreign relations, and memory. The book profits from Kraus's particular expertise on culture and the arts, and does not shy from controversial claims that are likely to provoke lively discussions." -Joseph Esherick, Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies, University of California,San Diego"It's just 152 pages, small enough to slip in your back pocket, and written by a political scientist who knows the complex event in question through and through, and does a nice job of, among other things, dealing with the strange shadows it continues to cast on contemporary Chinese politics." -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor and Department of History Chair, University of California at Irvine Read more...

