FEB. 22: 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE?

Unfortunately, the following book will not be published in time for me to assign it for this week's reading:

The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976
Authors: Frederick Teiwes, Warren Sun
Format: Hardcover, 700 pages
Publication Date: February 2007
Publisher: East Gate Book
List Price: $98.95

Required for all:

Richard Baum, Burying Mao, ch. 1. (ER)

Students will be assigned to read at least one of the following descriptive accounts of part(s) of the -1976+ drama:

Jin Qiu, Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution (2003), chs. 1, 7-8. eBraryJin Qiu, Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution (2003), chs. 1, 7-8. eBrary

A. James Gregor and Maria Hsia Chan, "Anti-Confucianism: Mao's Last Campaign," Asian Survey, Vol. 19, No. 11. (Nov., 1979), pp. 1073-1092. JSTOR

David S. Zweig, "The Peita Debate on Education and the Fall of Teng Hsiao-p'ing," The China Quarterly, No. 73. (Mar., 1978), pp. 140-159. JSTOR

Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, "The First Tiananmen Incident Revisited: Elite Politics and Crisis Management at the end of Mao's Era," Pacific Affairs, vol.77:2 (Summer 2004) PDF version in course conference "Other Readings"

Keith Forster, "China's Coup of October 1976," Modern China, Vol. 18, No. 3. (Jul., 1992), pp. 263-303. JSTOR

John Bryan Starr,"From the 10th Party Congress to the Premiership of Hua Kuo-feng: The Significance of the Colour of the Cat," The China Quarterly, No. 67. (Sep., 1976), pp. 457-488. JSTOR

And one of the following, more theoretical/analytical accounts:

Lowell Dittmer, "Bases of Power in Chinese Politics: A Theory and an Analysis of the Fall of the 'Gang of Four,'"World Politics, Vol. 31, No. 1. (Oct., 1978), pp. 26-60. JSTOR

Parris H. Chang, "Who Gets What, When and How in Chinese Politics--A Case Study of the Strategies of Conflict of the "Gang of Four," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 2. (Jul., 1979), pp. 21-42. JSTOR

Tang Tsou, "Mao Tse-tung Thought, the Last Struggle for Succession, and the Post-Mao Era," The China Quarterly, No. 71. (Sep., 1977), pp. 498-527. JSTOR