{"product_id":"9781478009528-cultural-revolution-and-revolutionary-culture","title":"Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn  Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture , Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical \"prologue\" of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play  Hai Rui Dismissed from Office  was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48430289879259,"sku":"9781478009528","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/87ef537d-7407-4723-a11f-d11ba2606bd9_85a642c0-b1de-47f6-8d48-c8ec8ca2ab0f.jpg?v=1773751619","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781478009528-cultural-revolution-and-revolutionary-culture","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}