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Economic History of the Cultural Revolution

Published on March 27, 2012 in 20th century, Doing History and Modern China (Spring 2012). Closed

A new Oxford Press “Very Short Introduction” book on the Cultural Revolution has been published. Here, China Beat excerpts a piece on the economics of the period, a very different way of looking at things.

Excerpt from New Taiping Rebellion Work

Published on February 28, 2012 in Doing History, historiography, Modern China (Spring 2012) and not homework. Closed

The China Beat blog has published an excerpt from Stephen Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War