Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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M.E. Sharpe, 11 mars 1998
The chief target of China's infamous Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi is one of the tragic figures of the Chinese revolution. By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, Lowell Dittmer illuminates not only the life and fate of this fascinating leader but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development. Liu Shaoqi emerges as the symbol of a systematic endeavor to combine order with revolution and equality using economic efficiency and technocratic values.

In this new edition, Mr. Dittmer tells the end of the story -- the death of Liu Shaoqi and the fate of Wang Guangmei (Liu's wife and a notable figure herself) and other members of Liu's family and inner circle -- and the legacy and relevance of Liu's contribution to China in the late twentieth century.

 

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Display
142
Contact
145
Interest
153
Reality
159
Evaluation
164
Work
167
Conclusion
170
The Capitalist Road Critique and Metacritique
175

The Hundred Flowers
28
The Great Leap Forward
32
The SinoSoviet Dispute
36
Power Struggle
38
Perceptions of InnerParty Opposition
44
Cultural Revolution
48
Conclusion
50
The Fall of Liu Shaoqi
54
The Fall of Peng Zhen
55
The Fifty Days
62
Decline and Fall
77
Conclusion
92
Liu Shaoqi in the Cultural Revolution
101
Initiation of Revolution
104
Direction Switch
106
From January Storm to Triple Combination
121
Seizure of Ideological Power
129
Conclusion
134
TWO ROADS
139
Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong A Comparison of Character Political Style and Policy
141
Philosophical Themes
176
Political Themes
180
Economic Themes
197
Cultural Themes
211
Conclusion
221
CRITICISM AND SELFCRITICISM
229
Toward a Theory of Mass Criticism
231
The Liu Shaoqi Case
235
Conclusion
243
Mass Criticism and Mass Line
245
Liu Shaoqi as Symbol and Scapegoat
248
Innovation and Diffusion of Criticisms
254
Conclusion
257
The Structural Evolution of Criticism and SelfCriticism
262
Afterword
278
Notes
293
Selected Bibliography
353
Index
367
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