Books by Joseph Esherick, Pickowicz & Walder
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.
Interviews where books by Joseph Esherick, Pickowicz & Walder were recommended
The best books on The Cultural Revolution, recommended by Roderick MacFarquhar
Countries do have to come to terms with their own history, and it’s unhealthy that China has not yet come to terms with the Cultural Revolution, argues the West’s leading scholar of the period, Roderick MacFarquhar. He chooses the best five books on the Cultural Revolution.
