Why did the Chinese Communist Party state collapse so rapidly during the Cultural Revolution? Consulting over 2, 000 local annals chronicling some 34, 000 revolutionary episodes across China, Andrew Walder offers a new answer, showing how the army, brought in to quiet brewing rebellions, escalated the violence that took nearly 1.
6 million lives.
Harvard University Press Agents of disorder. inside china's cultural revolution, hardback/andrew g. walder
