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Reappraising Maoism from the Bottom Up
- Twentieth-Century China
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 3, October 2021
- pp. 316-322
- 10.1353/tcc.2021.0027
- Article
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Abstract:
Two recent books by Felix Wemheuer and Yang Kuisong constitute important pieces of a broader shift toward exploring the Maoist period at the grassroots level, from the bottom up, and contribute to ongoing debates on the nature, periodization, and legacies of Maoism.
This essay discusses the following works. Felix Wemheuer. A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. $79.99 (cloth), $29.99 (paper). | Yang Kuisong. Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao. Translated by Gregor Benton and Ye Zhen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 285 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $39.95 (paper).