Recommendations from our site
“Chen Jian and Arnie Westad are both historians of China who are also very interested in the Cold War and the international situation. They remind us that there was eclectic borrowing going on during the first decades of PRC history that we sometimes forget when we think in terms of East-West polarities, or communist-capitalist dichotomies. Their book looks at what happened after the exhaustion with Mao’s particular utopian interpretation of Marxism-Leninism. What, they ask, came out of the rubble of the early Cultural Revolution? The heroes of their story, in a way, are a combination of ordinary people trying to rebuild their lives, and leaders who were trying to come up with new, mix-and-match ideas to move China forward.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
Our most recommended books
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Mao’s Last Revolution
by Michael Schoenhals & Roderick MacFarquhar -
Diary: Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law
Ennin (trans. E O Reischauer) -
A Tibetan Revolutionary
by Melvyn C Goldstein -
The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces
by Jonathan Unger -
Proletarian Power
by Elizabeth Perry & Elizabeth Perry and Li Xun -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
by Peter Hopkirk
