The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 1: Contradictions Among the People 1956-1957

Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised study-now a classic-Roderick MacFarquhar seeks to answer that question by examining the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.

• The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 2
• The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3
• Mao’s Last Revolution
• End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise