The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jisheng, Yang
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jisheng, Yang

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering...
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Author: Yang Jisheng
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jisheng, Yang

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

CHF 34.04
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jisheng, Yang

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

CHF 34.04
Author: Yang Jisheng
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.

As 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. Following Tombstone, his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding the lasting influence of those years.

The World Turned Upside Down 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 centralized power structure and a Mao-style cult of personality.

Author: Yang Jisheng
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781250829702

About the Author

Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1964, and worked for the Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001. For fifteen years, he was a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu (Chronicles of History), an official journal that regularly skirted censorship with articles on controversial political topics. In 2015, he resigned under official pressure. For his groundbreaking work Tombstone, Yang won Sweden's Stieg Larsson Prize for journalistic courage in 2015, and the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, presented by the Nieman Fellows at Harvard University, in 2016. Tombstone also won the Manhattan Institute's 2013 Hayek Book Prize and the 2013 Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide. Yang Jisheng lives in Beijing with his wife and two children.

Stacy Mosher learned Chinese in Hong Kong, where she lived for more than seventeen years. A longtime journalist, Mosher currently works as a translator and editor in Brooklyn, New York.

Guo Jian is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Originally trained in the Chinese language and literature, Guo was on the Chinese faculty of Beijing Normal University until he came to the United States to study for his Ph.D. in English in the mid-1980s.
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