Description
Book SynopsisA controversial polemic countering modern revisionist narratives demonising the Mao regime.
Trade Review'A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China' -- Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff
'Opens a much needed window onto Chinese perceptions of the country¹s post-Mao direction' -- Martin Hart-Landsberg, Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Debating the Cultural Revolution
2. Constructing History: Memories, Values and Identity
3. Constructing History: Memoirs, Autobiographies and Biographies in Chinese
4. Mao, the Unknown Story: An Intellectual Scandal
5. Mao: the Known Story and the Logic of Denial
6. How a Medical Doctor Doctors History: A Case Study of Li Zhisui
7. Challenging the Hegemony: Contrary Narratives in the E-Media (I)-Mao and the Cultural Revolution
8. Challenging the Hegemony: Contrary Narratives in the E-Media (II)-the Mao Era
9. The Problem of Rural-Urban Divide in Pursuit of Modernity: Values and Attitudes
10. Battle of China's history: Seeing the Past from the Present
Conclusion Truth and Belief Values of Socialism and China's Future Direction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
