As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. Jisheng puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
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