Authority Participation and Cultural Change in China: Essays by a European Study Group

by Edited by Stuart R. Schram , Introduction by Stuart R. Schram , With contributions by Marianne Bastid , John Gardner , Jack Gray , Christopher Howe , Wilt Idema , Jon Sigurdson , Andrew J. Watson , Wilt Idema , Jon Sigurdson , Andrew J. Watson

• ISBN13: 9780521098205
• ISBN10: 0521098203
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1973-09-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on the immediate consequences and the likely long-term effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the enormous social and political upheaval initiated by Mao Tse-Tung in 1966. The authors discuss a series of connected problems, all intimately related to the central theme of leadership and participation in the Chinese pattern of economic development and social change. The collection is edited by Stuart Schram, who also provides a long introduction; he puts the Cultural Revolution in the broad historical perspective of the Chinese revolution as it has taken shape since the end of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: the Cultural Revolution in historical perspective

The two roads: alternative strategies of social change and economic growth in China

Levels of economic decision-making

Labour organization and incentives in industry, before and after the Cultural Revolution

China's educational revolution

A revolution to tough men's souls: the family, interpersonal relations and daily life

List of contributors

Index

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