Read Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

Andrew G. Walder

4.9/5 (34103 ratings)

Description:Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today's governments.By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People's Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead.How and why did the party state collapse so rapidly? Standard accounts depict a revolution instigated from the top down and escalated from the bottom up. In this pathbreaking reconsideration of the origins and trajectory of the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Walder offers a startling new conclusion: party cadres seized power from their superiors, setting off a chain reaction of violence, intensified by a mishandled army intervention. This inside-out dynamic explains how virulent factions formed, why the conflict escalated, and why the repression that ended the disorder was so much worse than the violence it was meant to contain.Based on over 2,000 local annals chronicling some 34,000 revolutionary episodes across China, Agents of Disorder offers an original interpretation of familiar but complex events and suggests a broader lesson for our times: forces of order that we count on to stanch violence can instead generate devastating bloodshed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. To get started finding Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 067423832X

Description: Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today's governments.By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People's Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead.How and why did the party state collapse so rapidly? Standard accounts depict a revolution instigated from the top down and escalated from the bottom up. In this pathbreaking reconsideration of the origins and trajectory of the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Walder offers a startling new conclusion: party cadres seized power from their superiors, setting off a chain reaction of violence, intensified by a mishandled army intervention. This inside-out dynamic explains how virulent factions formed, why the conflict escalated, and why the repression that ended the disorder was so much worse than the violence it was meant to contain.Based on over 2,000 local annals chronicling some 34,000 revolutionary episodes across China, Agents of Disorder offers an original interpretation of familiar but complex events and suggests a broader lesson for our times: forces of order that we count on to stanch violence can instead generate devastating bloodshed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. To get started finding Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

More Books

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)

Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)

The Waning of the Communist State: Economic Origins of Political Decline in China and Hungary (Volume 21) (Studies on China)

The Waning of the Communist State: Economic Origins of Political Decline in China and Hungary (Volume 21) (Studies on China)

Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

China's Transitional Economy (Studies on Contemporary China)

China's Transitional Economy (Studies on Contemporary China)

Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery

Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery

China Under Mao by Andrew G. Walder (17-Apr-2015) Hardcover

China Under Mao by Andrew G. Walder (17-Apr-2015) Hardcover

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)