{"product_id":"the-world-turned-upside-down-9781250829702","title":"The World Turned Upside Down","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYang Jisheng's \u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (19661976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Following \u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e, his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding the lasting influence of those years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and a Mao-st\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407317016919,"sku":"9781250829702","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250829702.jpg?v=1730498968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-turned-upside-down-9781250829702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}