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This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the firs

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In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Po

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.