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The Cultural Revolution
Book 3 in the Asian Military History series.
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The Cultural Revolution is an accessible non-fiction account of mao Zedong and a Decade of Political Upheaval in China. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976. Key figures linked to the book include Mao Zedong.