The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History

by Joseph Esherick, Pickowicz & Walder

Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz started a year-long seminar for their graduate students and these students were then encouraged to go off and do their own research projects. And they really are extraordinarily interesting – and very revealing. The essence of the book is that these are graduate students who are beginning to come to grips with how you use the materials which are all fragmentary and of very different types in order to study the Cultural Revolution.