Volume 33, Number 12 · July 17, 1986
Look Back in Anger
By John K. Fairbank
To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman
recounted by Yue Daiyun, written by Carolyn Wakeman
University of California Press, 405 pp., $17.95
After the Nightmare: A Survivor of the Cultural Revolution Reports on China Today
by Liang Heng, by Judith Shapiro
Knopf, 240 pp., $16.95
Warm Winds, Cold Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today
by Judith Shapiro, by Liang Heng
Wesleyan University Press, 197 pp., $17.95
The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms: A Historical Perspective
by Tang Tsou
University of Chicago Press, 351 pp., $29.95
All of the four books under review examine the nature and the aftereffects of Mao's revolution, which attacked special privilege under the battle cry of 'class struggle.' His populist egalitarianism took as a target even the intellectual elite, who are so necessary to modernization. Since Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping's reforms seem to have left 'class struggle' far behind. Is it dead or only dormant?
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