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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Debating the Cultural Revolution | |
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Introduction: who is writing history and who are the Chinese? | |
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The haojie discourse and the Cultural Revolution | |
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Violence, brutality and causes | |
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Constructive policies | |
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Destruction of Chinese culture and tradition | |
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Cultural Revolution and cultural creativity | |
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What is the Enlightenment? | |
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Constructing history: memories, values and identity | |
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Introduction: speech act of identification | |
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From the wounded to the mentalite: the re-rehearsal of May Fourth | |
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Be American citizens in thinking | |
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Sinological orientalism | |
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Two whateverism | |
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The politics of joining the civilized world | |
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Media agenda and identification with the West | |
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Memoirs, values and identification | |
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The intellectual-business-political complex in contemporary China | |
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Conclusion: memories, identity, knowledge and truth | |
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Constructing history: memoirs, autobiographies and biographies in Chinese | |
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Introduction: scope and rationale | |
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Memoirs, autobiographies and biographies in Chinese: a literature survey | |
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth | |
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Some common themes on Mao and the Cultural Revolution | |
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Memories as history | |
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Conclusion: discourse, narratives and memories | |
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Mao, The Unknown Story: an intellectual scandal | |
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Introduction hyper-promotion of a book | |
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Scholarship, what scholarship? | |
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Misleading claims and absurd explanations | |
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Further evidence of 'scholarship' | |
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Further evidence of flaws and misleading claims | |
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Logical inconsistency within the text | |
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Mao, China's Hitler and Stalin | |
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Fairy tale and how scholarship changes | |
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Does it matter? | |
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It does not matter so long as the politics is right | |
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Mao: the known story and the logic of denial | |
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Introduction: Mao the known story, a general outline | |
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Evidence of the known story | |
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So what was the problem? | |
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The famine death toll | |
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The economy in the Mao era | |
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The yardstick of Hitler: a favourite European comparison | |
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Mao's personality: the known story | |
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The logic of denial of the known story | |
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Academic reception | |
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Revolution: from farewell to burial | |
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Furet and the French Revolution | |
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Is revolution inevitable? | |
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An alternative model of development | |
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How a medical doctor doctors history: a case study of Li Zhisui | |
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Introduction; expatriate Chinese memories - a literary phenomenon | |
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Memories and the politics of knowledge production | |
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The book | |
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Knowledge gap | |
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Knowledge production and the market | |
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The logic of the differences in two versions | |
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Who is to be fooled and why? | |
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Protests from the insiders | |
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Was Li Mao's personal physician? | |
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How much did the doctor know? | |
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What did the medical doctor know about politics? | |
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The politics of sex | |
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History as doctored by the doctor and his US mentors: a critical analysis | |
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Conclusion: history what history? | |
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Challenging the hegemony: contrary narratives in the e-media (I) - Mao and the Cultural Revolution | |
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Introduction: emerging contrary narratives | |
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Media effect, public space and e-media | |
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Ma Yinchu, population control and elite attitudes | |
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The credibility of Li Rui | |
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Challenging the late-Mao thesis | |
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Challenging Jung Chang and Jon Halliday | |
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Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and the Great Leap Forward | |
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Debates on issues related to the Cultural Revolution | |
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Disagreement between Mao and Liu Shaoqi: the two-line struggle thesis | |
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Other unofficial views of the Cultural Revolution | |
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Sea change of attitudes | |
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Wang Xizhe the dissident | |
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Kong Qingdong and the cowshed | |
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Memoirs of different narratives | |
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Challenging Wang Youqin | |
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Conclusion: the question of truth | |
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Challenging the hegemony: contrary narratives in the e-media (II) - the Mao era | |
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Introduction: history in socioeconomic context | |
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The state of the economy in the Mao era and during the Cultural Revolution | |
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Manufacturing truth | |
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Signs of a re-evaluation of Jiang Qing | |
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The issues of health care and education | |
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A re-evaluation of Kang Sheng? | |
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The Chinese themselves say so | |
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Manufacturing truth and e-media counter-action | |
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The legacy of Mao and the e-media | |
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Conclusion: voices from the bottom for a battle that has just begun | |
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The problem of the rural-urban divide in pursuit of modernity: values and attitudes | |
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Introduction: the year 2003 | |
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The rise of China, but the risk of collapse | |
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The urban-rural divide | |
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Three stories of rural pain | |
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Rural Chinese: beasts of burden on whom modernity is built | |
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The rural-urban divide: values and attitudes | |
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Post-Mao reforms: myths versus reality | |
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Conclusion: the state and the countryside | |
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The battle of China's history: seeing the past from the present | |
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Introduction: a little incident | |
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Three questions about the post-Mao reforms | |
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Is China a capitalist country? And does it matter? | |
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Capitalism with Chinese characteristics? | |
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White cat, black cat: the argument of efficiency versus fairness | |
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Seeing the past from the present: a hole in the discursive hegemony | |
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Conclusion: truth and belief values of socialism and China's future direction | |
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Truth and belief values of a political discourse | |
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Truth and belief value of exploiting the peasantry | |
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Do the values of socialism matter? | |
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Learning from past failures | |
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The socialist truth and belief value of land ownership | |
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The socialist truth and belief value of labour law | |
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The socialist truth and belief values of healthcare and education | |
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The battie of China's history | |
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China's future direction | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary of Chinese terms and names | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |