Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class

by Joel Andreas

Book Overview

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups--the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elite--coalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804760780
• ISBN13: 9780804760782
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"