This intimate portrait of Mao Zedong, one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history, introduces the essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as his youthful writings, poems…
One of the central issues in the study of the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign policy is its relations with Moscow. Was the CCP a Chinese nationalist party antagonistic to an intrusive Soviet Union or was it rather an internationalist party with ideological-political and …
One of the central issues in the study of the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign policy is its relations with Moscow. Was the CCP a Chinese nationalist party antagonistic to an intrusive Soviet Union or was it rather an internationalist party with ideological-political and …
"This book takes a genealogical approach to uncovering the processes whereby Maoism came into existence, how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively exported it outside China, and the conditions of its emergence in Cambodian intellectual circles where it inspired the future l…
"This book takes a genealogical approach to uncovering the processes whereby Maoism came into existence, how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively exported it outside China, and the conditions of its emergence in Cambodian intellectual circles where it inspired the future l…
"This book takes a genealogical approach to uncovering the processes whereby Maoism came into existence, how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively exported it outside China, and the conditions of its emergence in Cambodian intellectual circles where it inspired the future l…
"This book takes a genealogical approach to uncovering the processes whereby Maoism came into existence, how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively exported it outside China, and the conditions of its emergence in Cambodian intellectual circles where it inspired the future l…
"This book takes a genealogical approach to uncovering the processes whereby Maoism came into existence, how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively exported it outside China, and the conditions of its emergence in Cambodian intellectual circles where it inspired the future l…
Introduction -- The civilian participants -- The normative question -- As a matter of transitional justice -- Responsibility of vulnerable participants -- Methodological issues -- The Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath -- Introduction -- Seeds of social and political disconte…
"In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, political persecutions, violation of rights, deprivation of freedom, violence and brutality were daily occurrences. Especially striking is the huge number of ordinary civilians who were involved in inflicting pain and suffering on th…
"In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, political persecutions, violation of rights, deprivation of freedom, violence and brutality were daily occurrences. Especially striking is the huge number of ordinary civilians who were involved in inflicting pain and suffering on th…
"In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, political persecutions, violation of rights, deprivation of freedom, violence and brutality were daily occurrences. Especially striking is the huge number of ordinary civilians who were involved in inflicting pain and suffering on th…
"The power of Frank Dikötter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forwar©d'; lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It …
The power of Frank Dikotter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forward' lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It ste…