Description
Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised study-now a classic-Roderick MacFarquhar seeks to answer that question by examining the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.
Author: Roderick Macfarquhar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 12/03/1987
Pages: 439
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.34w x 1.11d
ISBN13: 9780231083850
ISBN10: 0231083858
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | General
- History | Asia | China
About the Author
Roderick MacFarquhar, a former British M.P. and the founding editor of The China Quarterly, is now Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Studies. His books include The Forbidden City and Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971.