The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

摘要

Forty years after his death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong and his final most extensive mass campaign continue to fascinate China-watchers as well as many Chinese.As Professor Dikötter reminds readers, when, in 1981, the then leaders of the Chinese Communist Party issued their Resolution on the party's history much of which dealt with the Cultural Revolution, they hoped to discourage discussion of such sensitive topics, at least within China.Nevertheless, since then numerous memoirs by Chinese of their experiences during the campaign have been published in mainland China, in Hong Kong and in the West, while some substantial studies of the period by western scholars have appeared.