Rise of the Red Engineers The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class

Name: Rise of the Red Engineers The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
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ISBN: 9780804760782

ISBN-10: 0804760780

ISBN-13: 9780804760782

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joel Andreas

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Rise of the Red Engineersexplains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groupsthe poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elitecoalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical measures to eliminate class distinctions based on education, aggravating antagonisms between the new political and old cultural elites. Ultimately, however, Mao's attacks on both groups during the Cultural Revolution spurred inter-elite unity, paving the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Joel Andreas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in various publications, including theAmerican Sociological Review,Theory and Society, andThe China Journal.