{"product_id":"the-world-turned-upside-down-by-yang-jisheng-9781800750852","title":"The World Turned Upside Down","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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\" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilised the masses in a battle against what he called \"bourgeois\" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, \u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralised power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A work of breathtaking courage'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833783079148,"sku":"9781800750852","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3608613482829.jpg?v=1758480813","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-world-turned-upside-down-by-yang-jisheng-9781800750852","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}