| Description |
xiv, 386 pages : graphs ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
PART I: LIU'S FALL: Introduction -- The life and times of Liu Shao-ch"i -- Prologue : the gathering storm -- The fall of Liu Shao-ch'i -- Liu Shao-ch'i in the Cultural Revolution -- PART II: TWO ROADS: Liu Shao-ch'i and Mao Tse-Tung : a comparison of character, political style, and policy -- The "capitalist road" : critique and megacritique -- PART III: CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM: Toward a theory of mass criticism -- Mass criticism and mass line -- The structural evolution of criticism and self-criticism |
| Summary |
"Riding a wave of criticism unprecedented in intensity or scope. China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an epoch-making "struggle between the lines" to determine the direction of national development at a critical transition point. Leader of the triumphant "proletarian revolutionary line" was Mao Tse-Tung; leader of the vanguished "bourgeois reactionary line" was erstwhile Chief of State Liu Shao-ch'i, a prominent Communist theorist and organizer who had served as Mao's "close comrade-in-arms: for more than twenty years and was his designed successor. ... Mr. Ditmer illuminates the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development." |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index |
| Subject |
Liu, Shaoqi, 1898-1969.
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Liu, Shao-ch'i, 1900-1974
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Liu, Shaoji.
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Liu, Shao-ch̀i, 1900-1974
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Liu, Shao-chi, 1900-1974
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Communist self-criticism.
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Communist revisionism.
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
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China -- Politics and government.
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
73085786 |
| ISBN |
0520025741 |
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9780520025745 |
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