A detailed case study of provincial politics during the decade-long Cultural Revolution, which analyzes the form and changing nature of mass organizations established in China by 1966. The text traces their evolution, activities and ultimate dissolution ten years later.
1. The Cultural Revolution in The Provinces, Harvard East Asian Monographs, 42 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971).
2. Keith Forster, âThe Hangzhou Incident of 1975: The Impact of Factionalism on a Chinese Provincial Administrationâ, (Ph. D. thesis: University of Adelaide, 1985).
3. Frank P. Belloni and Dennis C. Beller, âParty and Faction: Modes of Political Competitionâ, in Belloni and Beller (eds), Faction Politics: Political Parties and Factionalism in Comparative Perspective (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio Inc., 1978), p. 445.
4. Ann E. Fenwick, âThe Gang of Four and the Politics of Opposition: China, 1971-1976â, (Ph. D. thesis: Stanford University, 1984), p. 20.
5. Lucien Pye, The Dynamics of Chinese Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1981).
6. Beller and Belloni, Faction Politics, pp. 430-7. See also, Norman K. Nicholson, âThe Factional Model and The Study of Politicsâ, Comparative Political Studies, 5: 3 (1972), pp. 303-05.
7. Beller and Belloni, Faction Politics, pp. 419-30.
8. Andrew J. Nathan, âA Factionalism Model for CCP Politicsâ, China Quarterly (CQ), 53 (1973), pp. 34-66.
9. Nicholson, âThe Factional Modelâ, p. 298.
10. William Hinton, Shenfan (London: Picador Books, 1983), p. 611.
11. Zhang Yun,
(Boost party spirit, overcome factionalism), Hongqi, No. 9 (1984), pp. 6-8. See also Keith Forster, âThe Repudiation of the Cultural Revolutionâ, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 17: 1 (1987), pp. 71-72.
12. For example, see Hong Yung Lee, The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978); Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen and Jonathan Unger, âStudents and Class Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guard Conflict in Guangzhou (Canton)â, CQ, 83, (September 1980), pp. 397-446.
13. For a useful discussion of class as caste, see R.C. Kraus, Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981), pp. 117-39.
14. Jonathan Unger, Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960â1980 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), pp. 130-31.
15. Lee, The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, pp. 340-43.
16. Chan et al., âStudents and Class Warfareâ, pp. 433-42.
17. Anita Chan (ed.), âA Brief Analysis of the Cultural Revolutionâ by Liu Guokai, in Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, 19: 2 (1986-7), esp. pp. 73-82, 85-92. Originally published as
in a Chinese mainland underground publication and then in Taiwan in
(A Collection of Mainland underground publications), Vol. 17 (Taibei: Institute for the Study of Chinese Communist Problems, 1983). pp. 91-244.
18. Gao Yuan, Born Red (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987).
Notes to Chapter 1
1. See William Whitson, The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927â71 (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), pp. 245-57.
2. For a biographical sketch of Jiang Hua see âJiang Hua -- President of the Supreme Peopleâs Courtâ, I&S, 16: 7 (1980), pp. 85-88; CNS, 288 (18 September 1969), pp. B12-17. The whereabouts of Jiangâs birthplace seems to have caused a great deal of confusion. The above article claims that he was born in Hubei province. Klein and Clark state that Jiangâs birthplace was in Shandong province. See D.W. Klein and A.B. Clark (eds), Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), Vol. I, p. 173. Jiang was in fact born in Jianghua county, Hunan province, from which place he took his name, a fact well known to the citizens of Zhejiang. For written proof, see the interview with Jiang Hua in which Jiang reminisced about Mao Zedongâs frequent visits to Zhejiang and the interviewer noted Jiangâs Hunan accent. ZJRB, December 26, 1983, p. 3. Another fact about Jiang not previously published is that ethnically he is a Yao national. Jianghua county is now a Yao autonomous county in the south of Hunan.
3. For a brief account of Wuâs life and political activities, see the articles published in ZJRB, November 6, 1978, pp. 1, 3; and Kang Keqing, Zeng Zhi and Peng Ru,
(Loyal and devoted, courageous and knowledgeable -- deeply cherish the memory of Comrade Wu Zhonglian), ZJRB, January 28, 1987, p. 2.
4. For a sketch of his career, see âWang Fang -- Newly Appointed Secretary of the CCP Zhejiang Provincial Committeeâ, I&S 19: 8 (1983), pp. 67-71.
5. For a recent account of the continued strength of this network see Liang Ruinian,
(Peng Zhenâs clique in the public security network is gaining ground)
