Yiching Wu 
Cultural Revolution at the Margins [EPUB ebook] 
Chinese Socialism in Crisis

The Cultural Revolution began from above, yet it was students and workers at the grassroots who advanced the movement’s radical possibilities by acting and thinking for themselves. Resolving to suppress the resulting crisis, Mao set events in motion in 1968 that left out in the cold those rebels who had taken it most seriously, Yiching Wu shows.