Liu Shao-ch'i and the Chinese cultural revolution
Subtitle: the politics of mass criticism
By: Lowell Dittmer. --
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Liu, Shao-ch'i, 1898-1969; Communist self-criticism; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Description: "Riding a wave of criticism unprecedented in intensity or scope. China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an epoch-making "struggle between the lines" to determine the direction of national development at a critical transition point. Leader of the triumphant "proletarian revolutionary line" was Mao Tse-Tung; leader of the vanguished "bourgeois reactionary line" was erstwhile Chief of State Liu Shao-ch'i, a prominent Communist theorist and organizer who had served as Mao's "close comrade-in-arms: for more than twenty years and was his designed successor. ... Mr. Ditmer illuminates the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 359-373. *** Includes index.

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