Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou (Canton)

by Stanley Rosen

When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification. The spectacle of severe splits among leaders long thought to be compatible, of armed struggles between factional units whose uniform pledges to Chairman Mao and the Party Center appeared to make their similarities greater than their differences, and of destructive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367285266
• ISBN13: 9780367285265
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"