Fractured Rebellion : The Beijing Red Guard Movement / Andrew G. Walder.
Walder, Andrew G., author.
2012
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Title Fractured Rebellion : The Beijing Red Guard Movement / Andrew G. Walder.
Author Walder, Andrew G., author.
ISBN 9780674054783
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054783
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (416 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674054783 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.05/6
Summary Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China's Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation's capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement's crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure. Most accounts of the movement have portrayed a struggle among Red Guards as a social conflict that pitted privileged "conservative" students against socially marginalized "radicals" who sought to change an oppressive social and political system. Walder employs newly available documentary evidence and the recent memoirs of former Red Guard leaders and members to demonstrate that on both sides of the bitter conflict were students from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, who shared similar-largely defensive-motivations. The intensity of the conflict and the depth of the divisions were an expression of authoritarian political structures that continued to exert an irresistible pull on student motives and actions, even in the midst of their rebellion. Walder's nuanced account challenges the main themes of an entire generation of scholarship about the social conflicts of China's Cultural Revolution, shedding light on the most tragic and poorly understood period of recent Chinese history.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION
1 THE BEIJING RED GUARDS An Introduction
2 THE ASSAULT ON POWER STRUCTURES Work Teams in the Universities
3 THE GENESIS OF DIVISION Sources of Opposition and Conflict
4 DIVIDED AT BIRTH The University Red Guards
5 CLASS AND VIOLENCE The High- School Red Guards
6 RADICALS WITH PATRONS The Rise of the Rebels
7 DISSENT AND ITS SUPPRESSION Challenging the Maoist Elite
8 FACTIONS REBORN Networks at Cross- Purpose
9 ENDGAME Fighting Not to Lose
10 HIERARCHY AND REBELLION Reflections on the Red Guards
GLOSSARY OF NAMES
BEIJING RED GUARD CHRONOLOGY
WORK- TEAM CASE HISTORIES
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

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