Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, emerging almost out of nowhere following an unexceptional career in Shanxi and Hunan. In just over two years, Hua had been eclipsed by Deng Xiaoping, a more politically shrewd, progressive and charismatic figure. If Hua’s rise to power was remarkable, then this fall was even more so.
Spis treści
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Young Revolutionary: Hua in Shanxi (1921-49) Towards Rural Reform: Hua in Hunan (1949-57) The Great Leap Forward and the Post-Leap Recovery Period: Hua in Hunan (1958-65) The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Hua in Hunan (1966-70) Entering the Centre: Hua in Beijing (1971-76) The Return of Deng Xiaoping: Hua in Decline (1977-1980) Conclusion Bibliography
O autorze
ROBERT WEATHERLEY is an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a lawyer with the English law firm Mills & Reeve LLP, and heads the firm’s China group. He is the author of
The Discourse of Human Rights in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and
Politics in China since 1949.
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