150098 SE The Chinese Cultural Revolution Studies (M3 GG) (2019W)

The Cultural Revolution is an excellent showcase for observing and understanding Chinese politics during the Maoist Era. By means of reading and discussing in depth the seven selected masterful books, this course will show students two different approaches (respectively focusing on elite politics and mass movements) taken by those pioneer scholars on the Cultural Revolution, and the multiple dynamics of this upheaval. Each student should read at least one book and give a presentation on its main ideas and arguments, and participate actively in discussions of the other books.

Course Arrangement:
Unit 1. General Introduction: Two Approaches to the Cultural Revolution

Unit 2. Seminar on ???’s ?????, 2008;

Unit 3. Seminar on Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals’ Mao’s Last Revolution, 2006;

Unit 4. Seminar on Anita Chan’s Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism In The Red Guard Generation, 1985;

Unit 5. Seminar on Wang Shaoguang’s Failure of Charisma: The Chinese Cultural Revolution In Wuhan, 1995;

Unit 6. Seminar on Elizabeth Perry and Li Xun’s Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution, 1997;

Unit 7. Seminar on Andrew Walder’s Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement, 2009;

Unit 8. Seminar on Andrew Walder’s China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, 2015;