The cultural revolution at the margins : Chinese socialism in crisis /
Yiching Wu.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 335 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the unthinkable revolution -- Enemies from the past : bureaucracy, class, and Mao's "continuous revolution" -- From the good blood to the right to rebel : politics of class and citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard movement -- Revolutionary alchemy : "economism" and the making of Shanghai's "January revolution" -- Revolution is dead, long live the revolution : popular radicalization of the cultural revolution in Hunan -- Coping with crisis in the wake of the cultural revolution : the historical origins of Chinese postsocialism -- Epilogue : from revolution to reform : rethinking the cultural revolution in the present.