Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive
history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking
detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in
the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as
well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting
in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a
threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a
battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a
massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the
nation's economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning
history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents
the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent
scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution
to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World
Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor,
of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and
arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance
is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure
and Mao-style cult of personality.
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