never always ha recensito The Cultural Revolution at the Margins di Yiching Wu
the single best book about the Cultural Revolution
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Models the most interesting approach to the GPCR. Doesn't give much of the broad historical outlines, so maybe another book (I've used MacFarquahar and it seems good, but haven't read it fully) or part of a book (Meisner's Mao's China and After is great and covers it) should be your first. The point being that real class and power struggle was going on in the period, not just mob violence or pogroms (although this too). I love the anecdote of the guy Wu interviews who begins by talking about how he was persecuted and how terrible the CR was, and then slowly over the course of meetings, starts opening up and it turns out he was in a rebel group fighting for those whose official class status didn't reflect their actual class status, has all these old documents, actually was really enthusiastic about it in the early days (the "short" …
Models the most interesting approach to the GPCR. Doesn't give much of the broad historical outlines, so maybe another book (I've used MacFarquahar and it seems good, but haven't read it fully) or part of a book (Meisner's Mao's China and After is great and covers it) should be your first. The point being that real class and power struggle was going on in the period, not just mob violence or pogroms (although this too). I love the anecdote of the guy Wu interviews who begins by talking about how he was persecuted and how terrible the CR was, and then slowly over the course of meetings, starts opening up and it turns out he was in a rebel group fighting for those whose official class status didn't reflect their actual class status, has all these old documents, actually was really enthusiastic about it in the early days (the "short" cultural revolution, roughly 1966-68).