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The Cultural Revolution: 1967 in Review (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies) by Michel Oksenberg; Carl Riskin; Ezra F. Vogel; Ezra F. Vogel; Ezra F. Vogel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values and strategy on the other. The Cultural Revolution collects four papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968. Michel Oksenberg opens the volume by examining the impact of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups including peasants, industrial managers and workers, intellectuals, students, party and government officials, and the military. Carl Riskin is concerned with the economic effects of the revolution, taking up production trends in agriculture and industry, movements in foreign trade, and implications of Masoist economic policies for China’s economic growth. Robert A. Scalapino turns to China’s foreign policy behavior during this period, arguing that Chinese Communists in general, and Mao in p

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Author
Michel Oksenberg; Carl Riskin; Ezra F. Vogel; Ezra F. Vogel; Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher
Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780892640027
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, History, Political Science

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