The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

by Yang Jisheng

Book Overview

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.

As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374293139
• ISBN13: 9780374293130
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"