The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966
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The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966
（Studies of the East Asian Institute）（The origins of the cultural revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar, 3）
Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Studies of the East Asian Institute by Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-699) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the final volume in a trilogy that examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. It seeks to answer the central question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its Communist Party? The Coming of the Cataclysm starts with the great famine of the early 1960s, which resulted in tens of millions of deaths and set in train a series of emergency measures that increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms. His anger that they were prepared to adopt "capitalist" methods to rescue the country was sharpened by his belief that Moscow had actually gone capitalist and sold out to the "imperialist" West. From 1961 to 1966, the period covered by this volume, the increasingly urgent question for Mao was how to prevent a similar revolutionary degeneration in China. The Cultural Revolution was his answer.
Drawing upon new evidence from Party documents, personal interviews, books, and journals, MacFarquhar details the growing rift between Mao and his colleagues as they attempted to cope with domestic privation and an increasingly hostile international environment-until the Chairman finally decided to smash the unity of the Yan'an Round Table by unleashing society against the party-state.
Table of Contents
I: The Third Bitter Year 1. The Central Committe's Ninth Plenum 2. Emergency Measures 3. A New Course in the Countryside 4. A Plethora of Plans 5. Reds and Experts 6. China's Isolation II: False Down 7. The Seven Thousand Cadres Conference 8. Economic Crunch 9. The Dispute over Collectivization 10. Resuscitating the United Front 11. The Curious Case of the 'Three-Family Village' III: Class Struggle 12. Mao Changes the Signals 13. War in the Himalayas, Crisis in the Caribbean 14. Mao in Charge 15. The Socialist Education Movement 16. The Sino-Soviet Rupture and the Vietnam War IV: The End of the Yan'an Round Table 17. Woman Warrior 18. From Grey Eminence to Red Leader 19. Mao Stoops to Conquer 20. The Coming of the Cataclysm
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