Title: Liu Shao-chʻi and the Chinese cultural revolution
First published: 1971
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."
Subjects: Communist self-criticism, History, Politics and government, China, politics and government, 1949-
Places: China
People: Shaoqi Liu (1898-1969), Shao-ch'i, 1898-1969 Liu
Time periods: Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976