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Debating the Cultural Revolution: Do We Only Know What We Believe?
Citation
Gao, MCF, Debating the Cultural Revolution: Do We Only Know What We Believe?, Critical Asian Studies, 34, (3) pp. 419-434. ISSN 1467-2715 (2002) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1080/1467271022000008956
Abstract
Stimulated by his participation in two recent museum exhibitions concerning the Cultural Revolution the author of this article offers his contrarian views on the history and lasting significance of China's ten-year-long Cultural Revolution. Acknowledging that there was indeed senseless and brutal acts of violence from 1966 to 1976, the author asks whether the violence ever rose to the level of a "holocaust," as commentators inside and outside China have charged. He next explores the charge that the Cultural Revolution resulted in the deliberate destruction of Chinese culture and tradition. The picture the author paints of this turbulent period in China's history is one not often aired in academic circles or in public discourse. He closes by putting the violence of the Cultural Revolution in the broader context of violence that was happening elsewhere during that period, e.g., in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Political science not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Government and politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Gao, MCF (Associate Professor Mobo Gao) |
ID Code: | 23895 |
Year Published: | 2002 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 7 |
Deposited By: | Asian Languages and Studies |
Deposited On: | 2002-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2003-05-20 |
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