The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
Chinese Socialism in Crisis
- List of Figures and Tables*
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. The Unthinkable Revolution
- From the Margins: A Historiographical and Interpretive Detour
- Plan of This Book
- 2. Enemies from the Past: Bureaucracy, Class, and Mao’s Continuous Revolution
- When Revolutionaries Became Rulers
- Socialist Bureaucracy and Ruling-Class Formation
- Class as Classification
- How the Old Bottle Spoiled New Wine
- 3. From the Good Blood to the Right to Rebel: Politics of Class and Citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard Movement
- Proletarian Purity
- Festivals of Red Violence
- Birth of a Big Poisonous Weed
- Rights and Class: Transgressing Maoism
- 4. Revolutionary Alchemy: Economism and the Making of Shanghai’s January Revolution
- A Brief History of Economism
- Crisis and Indeterminacy
- Revolutionary Alchemy: “What Kind of Stuff Is Economism?”
- The Making of a New Political Model
- An Unstable Closure
- In the Name of Proletarian Power
- 5. Revolution Is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Popular Radicalization of the Cultural Revolution in Hunan
- The Great Retreat and Its Discontents
- Resisting Demobilization: The Road to the Shengwulian
- Coalition of the Disaffected?
- “The People’s Commune of China”
- The Universality of the Singular
- 6. Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution: The Historical Origins of Chinese Postsocialism
- Rebellion and Encompassment
- Return to Normalcy
- Continuing Crises
- The Road to Brumaire: The Hegemonic Politics of Economic Reform
- Epilogue. From Revolution to Reform: Rethinking the Cultural Revolution in the Present
- Two Contrasting Chinas?
- Ruling-Class Transformation: Overcoming the 1978 Divide
- The Incomplete Continuous Revolution
- Appendix: List of Selected Chinese Characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Figures and Tables
- Figure 1. Numbers of cadres, 1949–1980 (in millions)
- Figure 2. The war of couplets over the issue of family origins, 1966
- Figure 3. The Yu family, 1963
- Figure 4. Shanghai’s January Revolution
- Figure 5. Yang Xiguang with younger sisters Yang Hui and Yang Xiaocheng in Wuhan
- Table 1. Rank and salary scale of party and government workers, 1955
- Table 2. The system of class labels
- Table 3. Average monthly wage, cost-of-living index, productivity, and gross industrial output, 1952–1980
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