New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution

Abstract

Introduction - new perspectives on the Cultural Revolution, William A. Joseph et al. Part 1 Politics: learning from trauma - the Cultural Revolution in post-Mao politics, Lowell Dittmer Cultural Revolution radicalism - variations on a Stalinist theme, Andrew G. Walder agrarian radicalism as a rural development strategy, 1968-1978, David Zweig the Cultural Revolution as an unintended result of administrative policies, Lynn T. White, III factional politics in Zhejiang, 1973-1976, Keith Forster. Part 2 Economics: neither plan nor market - Mao's political economy, Carl Riskin industrial policy during the Cultural Revolution - military preparation, decentralization, and leaps forward, Barry Naughton the Maoist reconsidered - local self-reliance and the financing of rural industrialization, Christine P. W. Wong central-provincial investment and finance - the Cultural Revolution and its legacy in Jiangsu Province, Penelope B. Prime. Part 3 Culture: arts policies of the Cultural Revolution - the rise and fall of Culture Minister Yu Huiyong, Richard Kraus models and misfits - rusticated youth in three novels of the 1970s, Richard King dramas of passion - heroism in the Cultural Revolution's model operas, Ellen R. Judd.