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 Author Page - RODERICK MACFARQUHAR
Recent Foreign Affairs articles: One document found. displaying 1 to 1.Mao's Last Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar October 1966 Summary: For the Chinese Communist Party, this year's "great proletarian cultural revolution" has meant the most serious purge since the disgrace of Defense Minister P'eng Teh-huai and two other Politburo members during the Great Leap Forward. P'eng Chen, effectively the sixth-ranking member of the Chinese Politburo, has been dismissed from the key post of first secretary of the Peking municipal party committee together with his senior colleagues. At least one other Politburo member, propaganda chief Lu Ting- yi, has been sacked along with many subordinates throughout the country. The long-missing Chief-of-Staff of the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) has been replaced and the army has undergone its third struggle over professionalism versus political control Finally at a giant rally in Peking on August 18, it was revealed that Mao's heir-apparent of twenty-years standing, head of state Liu Shao-ch'i, had been demoted several steps in the national hierarchy and had been replaced as Number 2 by Defense Minister Lin Piao. It is a startling picture of disarray in a Communist party which for most of the 31 years of Mao's chairmanship has been a model of solidarity at the top. What has happened to dispel the spirit of comradeship in that generation which participated in the Long March? Is the Chinese party now to undergo the periodic purging which has been the fate of the Soviet party ever since the death of Lenin? Are we witnessing a struggle for the succession to China's aging if still active father figure? Or is Mao himself turning into a Stalin in his old age? read 500-word preview | purchase full article
Recent books reviewed in Foreign Affairs: 3 documents found; displaying 1 to 3.The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms.Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick Macfarquhar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. September/October 1999 read
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. II: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960.Roderick MacFarquhar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Winter 1983/84 read
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. 1: Contradictions Among the People 1956-1957.Roderick Macfarquhar. New York: Columbia University Press (for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1974. April 1976 read
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