{"product_id":"world-turned-upside-down-2","title":"World Turned Upside Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s \"revisionism\" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called \"bourgeois\" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, \u003cem\u003eTombstone\u003c\/em\u003e, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years'' lasting influence today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/em\u003e puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312981090686,"sku":"NW9781800750852","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781800750852.jpg?v=1778515046","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/world-turned-upside-down-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}