Rise of the red engineers
Subtitle: the Cultural Revolution and the origins of China's new class
By: Joel Andreas.
Series: Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780804760775; 9780804760782
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- China -- History -- 20th century; Social classes -- China -- History -- 20th century; Power (Social sciences) -- China -- History -- 20th century; Engineers -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political foundations of class power; title: Cultural foundations of class power; title: Cradle of red engineers; title: Political versus cultural power; title: Uniting to defend political and cultural power; title: Supervising the red engineers; title: Eliminating the distinction between mental and manual labor; title: Worker-peasant-soldier students; title: Rebuilding the foundations of political and cultural power; title: Triumph of the red engineers; title: Technocracy and capitalism.