Through The Storm: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the Cultural Revolution (Volume 2) - Tapa blanda

YU Ruxin

 
9798330300501: Through The Storm: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the Cultural Revolution (Volume 2)
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ISBN 13: 9798330300501
Editorial: Bouden House, 2024

Sinopsis

Mao Zedong once famously said, "Power grows from the barrel of a gun," a prime example of which is the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). With the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the PLA’s mandate extended beyond safeguarding national security to maintaining domestic order and keeping the Chinese Communist Party in power. In the 1960s and 1970s, the PLA was Mao’s chief instrument in preparing, launching, and further developing the Cultural Revolution, but its role was complex and often opaque. Through the Storm meticulously traces the PLA’s role through archival research and interviews with retired cadres and officers to show that the military’s role in the Cultural Revolution has been historically understated and that it eclipsed that of the more high-profile civilian Red Guards in both scales and duration. With its Chinese edition hailed in media and academia as an "exceptionally valuable" achievement, this book’s condensed English edition offers international readers a deeper understanding of the PLA’s role in launching and perpetuating modern Chinese history’s most sustained and violent campaign.

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About the AuthorYu Ruxin, born in 1950, is a scholar specializing in the history of the Cultural Revolution. He has written more than 100 articles andmany books in Chinese on the subject. About the TranslatorsStacy Mosher is a translator and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Guo Jian is Professor Emeritus of English at the University ofWisconsin-Whitewater. They have previously translated several books on Chinese history, most notably Yang Jisheng's Tombstone: The GreatChinese Famine 1958-1962, and Gao Hua's How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement.

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Editorial
Bouden House
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 13 
9798330300501
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
464
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