Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China's Cultural Revolution

By Yang Lijun

Book Overview

This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that had a major impact on the political, economic, and social order of the time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819709059
• ISBN13: 9789819709052
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"