For the past several decades, the study of contemporary Chinese politics has been
dominated by the assumption that Mao's death marked the advent of a new era defined by a …

It is often said that one of the most important differences between the Mao and post-Mao
eras is the replacement of “revolutionary” campaigns by “rational” bureaucratic modes of …

This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most
remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the first part of a new …

The impact of more than two decades of reform in China has become a familiar story, so
familiar in fact that it is easy to lose sight of how spectacular and sweeping the changes …

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.
Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the …

Lowell Dittmer's lead contribution to this symposium correctly emphasizes both the
continued great salience of informal elite politics and the secular trend toward a more …

Mao Zedong presents a political-intellectual puzzle of such monumental proportions that he
will be a fruitful object of interpretation and reinterpretation for all subsequent generations of …

In an interview celebrating the centennial of Mao Zedong's birth, Chinese leader Bo Yibo
acknowledged that" how to evaluate Mao's thought and his historical position has been a …

Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world-renowned scholars
in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable …

The relation of Mao Zedong to Chinese political life is chimerical. After his death in 1976,
foreign analysts assumed that the Peo-ple's Republic of China (PRC) would follow the path …