An edition of Liu Shao-chʻi and the Chinese cultural revolution (1971)
Liu Shao-ch'i and the Chinese cultural revolution
the politics of mass criticism
By Lowell Dittmer
Publish Date
1974
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
394
Description:
"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."