Mao's Last Revolution (Paperback)

from LamSon

Mao's Last Revolution is a very good look at the Cultural Revolution and immediate aftermath. Mao kept control through a series of 'one liners' and pithy sayings that had little value in running a country as large as China. His subordinates spent most of their time 'brown-nosing' Mao, plotting ag...

from le.vert.galant

A history of the Cultural Revolution in which the authors do a fine job navigating the labyrinth of Chinese politics. They also show how the C.R. undermined Maoist ideology and paved the way for Deng's reforms. What's missing is the impact and practice of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese societ...

from Shrike58

I've become a little skeptical of large and sweeping "history of everything" books as I've become older, but this work is an exception as the authors use the most current documentation to try and sort out the chaotic violence that was the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution. The vision that one com...

from LamSon

Mao's Last Revolution is a very good look at the Cultural Revolution and immediate aftermath. Mao kept control through a series of 'one liners' and pithy sayings that had little value in running a country as large as China. His subordinates spent most of their time 'brown-nosing' Mao, plotting ag...

from le.vert.galant

A history of the Cultural Revolution in which the authors do a fine job navigating the labyrinth of Chinese politics. They also show how the C.R. undermined Maoist ideology and paved the way for Deng's reforms. What's missing is the impact and practice of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese societ...