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The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun

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The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun

This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the first part of a new interpretation of the evolution of Chinese politics during the years 1972-82, it provides a detailed study of the end of the Maoist era, demonstrating Mao's continuing dominance even as his ability to control events ebbed away. The tensions within the "gang of four," the different treatment of Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, and the largely unexamined role of younger radicals are analyzed to reveal a view of the dynamic of elite politics that is at odds with accepted scholarship. The authors draw upon newly available documentary sources and extensive interviews with Chinese participants and historians to develop their challenging interpretation of one of the most poorly understood periods in the history of the People's Republic of China.

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729

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Routledge

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1317457013

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China's Road to Disaster

Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

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China's Road to Disaster

Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765637766

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9780765637765

Politics and Purges in China

Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65

By: Frederick C Teiwes

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Politics and Purges in China

Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65

By: Frederick C Teiwes

Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the findings of the first edition.

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1315484757

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9781315484754

Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China

From a Charismatic Mao to the Politics of Succession

By: Frederick C Teiwes

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Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China

From a Charismatic Mao to the Politics of Succession

By: Frederick C Teiwes

This title was first published in 1984: This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.

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140

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1315496038

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China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun

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China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun

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405

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1315502798

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The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China

Mao, Deng Zihui and the High Tide of 1955

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun,Hongyi Lai,Lai Hongyi

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The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China

Mao, Deng Zihui and the High Tide of 1955

By: Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun,Hongyi Lai,Lai Hongyi

The decision to initiate a High Tide of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text. The social impact, policy conflict and leadership style of Mao is detailed, drawing upon documentary sources, interviews with Party historians, and a chronology of events.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315483602

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Revival: Politics and Purges in China (1980)

Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65

By: Frederick C Teiwes

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Revival: Politics and Purges in China (1980)

Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65

By: Frederick C Teiwes

This title was first published in 1980: Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the findings of the first edition.

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1351696106

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Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform

Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

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Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform

Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature: 1) a power/policy struggle between Hua Guofeng’s alleged neo-Maoists and Deng Xiaoping’s reform coalition; 2) the power of the peasants; and 3) the leading role of provincial reformers. The first has no validity, while second and third must be viewed through more complex lenses. This study provides a new interpretation challenging conventional wisdom. Its key finding is that a game changer emerged in spring 1980 at the time Deng replaced Hua as CCP leader, but the significant change in policy was not a product of any clash between these two leaders. Instead, Deng endorsed Zhao Ziyang’s policy initiative that shifted emphasis away from Hua’s pro-peasant policy of increased resources to the countryside, to a pro-state policy that reduced the rural burden on national coffers. To replace the financial resources, policy measures including household farming were implemented with considerable provincial variations. The major unexpected production increases in 1982 confirmed the arrival of decollectivization as the template on the ground. The dynamics of this policy change has never been adequately explained. Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform offers a deep empirical study of critical developments involving politics from the highest levels in Beijing to China’s villages, and in the process challenges many broader accepted interpretations of the politics of reform. It is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese political history.

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1317516168

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The Tragedy of Lin Biao

Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

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The Tragedy of Lin Biao

Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

The Lin Biao affair, which saw the Minister of Defence dramatically rise to become Mao Zedong's designated successor at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and, even more dramatically, die in a plane crash while fleeing his country in September 1971, remains the least understood of all Chinese Communist Party elite conflicts of the Maoist era. Despite the pivotal importance of Lin's rise and fall in the history of contemporary China, his career has received little scholarly attention. In this pathbreaking study Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun offer an interpretation which radically undermines the standard view of Lin Biao as an ambitious politician who manoeuvred his way to the top, adopted a radical position during the Cultural Revolution to promote his own interests, and eventually came undone by seeking to consolidate his own power and military dominance over the polity, thus leading to a vicious power struggle with Mao. They reveal Lin as someone basically uninterested in power or even politics, who was thrust into leading positions and the successor role by Mao against his wishes; who never opposed Mao politically but instead attempted to follow his wishes in every way to the extent that they could be determined; who had no policy programme, whose rare initiatives were on the side of moderation; and whose political decline was due to Mao's reaction to complex factors unconnected with either a bid by Lin for personal aggrandizement or an effort to entrench army power. In this Teiwes and Sun refute both the official Chinese verdict on Lin Biao and the prevailing Western interpretation.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818113

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9780824818111

Politics at Mao's Court

Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s

By: Frederick C Teiwes

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Politics at Mao's Court

Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s

By: Frederick C Teiwes

The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. The illumination of basic issues in Chinese politics in the context of this case, especially as regards the role of Mao Zedong, is relevant not only to the initial post-1949 period of comparative, but flawed, party unity, but also to the structural fault lines of the political system which were later to contribute so significantly to the Cultural Revolution.

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1315491117

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The Tragedy of Lin Biao

Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971

By: Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun

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Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971

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LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

By: Frederick Denison 1805-1872 Maurice,John Frederick Sir Maurice, 1841-1912

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LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

By: Frederick Denison 1805-1872 Maurice,John Frederick Sir Maurice, 1841-1912

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1372703535

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LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

By: Frederick Denison 1805-1872 Maurice

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By: Frederick Denison 1805-1872 Maurice

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The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

China's Road to Disaster

China's Road to Disaster

Politics and Purges in China

Politics and Purges in China

Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China

Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China

China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China

The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China

Revival: Politics and Purges in China (1980)

Revival: Politics and Purges in China (1980)

Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform

Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform

The Tragedy of Lin Biao

The Tragedy of Lin Biao

Politics at Mao's Court

Politics at Mao's Court

The Tragedy of Lin Biao

The Tragedy of Lin Biao

LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAUR

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