The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. The Unthinkable Revolution From the Margins: A Historiographical and Interpretive Detour Plan of This Book 2. Enemies from the Past: Bureaucracy, Class, and Mao's Continuous Revolution When Revolutionaries Became Rulers Socialist Bureaucracy and Ruling-Class Formation Class as Classification How the Old Bottle Spoiled New Wine 3. From the Good Blood to the Right to Rebel: Politics of Class and Citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard Movement Prolectarian Purity Festivals of Red Violence Birth of a Big Poisonous Weed Rights and Class: Transgressing Maoism 4. Revolutionary Alchemy: Economism and the Making of Shanghai's January Revolution A Brief History of Economism Crisis and Indeterminacy Revolutionary Alchemy: "What Kind of Stuff is Economism?" The Making of a New Political Model An Unstable Closure In the Name of Proletarian Power 5. Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Popular Radicalization of the Cultural Revolution in Hunan The Great Retreat and Its Discontents Resisting Demobilization: The Road to the Shengwulian Coalition of the Disaffected? "The People's Commune of China" The Universality of the Singular Rebellion and Emcompassment Return to Normalcy Continuing Crises The Road to Brumaire: The Hegemonic Politics of Economic Reform Epilogue. From Revolution to Reform: Rethinking the Cultural Revolution in the Present Two Contrasting Chinas? Ruling-Class Transformation: Overcoming the 1978 Divide The Incomplete Continuous Revolution Appendix: List of Selected Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index