Roderick MACFARQUHAR

Michael Schoenhals

Leroy B Williams Professor of History and Political Science and Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar

Chairman Mao's role in masterminding China's Cultural Revolution and why he did it is explained in a detailed portrait that offers the most authoritative account to date of the events, personalities, and repercussions of the period.

Mao’s Last Revolution

Merle Goldman

Roderick MacFarquhar

Professor of History Emerita Boston University and Associate of the John K Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Harvard University Merle Goldman

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China's unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China's population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyze the contradictory impact of China's economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance for China than all the revolutionary movements that have convulsed it through most of the twentieth century.

Leroy B Williams Professor of History and Political Science and Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar

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