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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dikötter, Frank, author.     Subjects     China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.     China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Atrocities.     China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dikötter, Frank, author.       by title:      The Cultural Revolut...         MARC Display

The Cultural Revolution : a people's history, 1962-1976 / Frank Dikötter. by Dikötter, Frank, author. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016. Subjects China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.   China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Atrocities.   China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives. ISBN:  1632864215 (hardcover) : 9781632864215 (hardcover) Description:  xxv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958-1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. This book draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. Frank Dikötter uses this wealth of material to undermine the picture of complete conformity that is often supposed to have characterized the last years of the Mao era. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, Dikötter casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.--Adapted from dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Dikotter Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Dikotter Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.056 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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