We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Alexander C. Cook, a Columbia PhD who teaches history at the University of California, Berkeley. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, … [Read more...]
The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alexander C. Cook (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to … [Read more...]
“Mao as Doxa in China’s Cultural Revolution”
Lecture "Mao as Doxa in China's Cultural Revolution" This talk seeks to understand the Cultural Revolution from the parallel structure of, vertically, the Mao cult, and horizontally, the Mao doxa. While people's worship of Mao was certainly important, we also need to take into consideration how people developed sociality around Mao as the common object of desire - a … [Read more...]