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From ‘Revisionism’ to ‘Alienation,’ from Great Leaps to ‘Third Wave’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Bill Brugger
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The China of the 1980s seems so very different from that of the mid 1960s: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is now widely denounced, seemingly both for the mid 1960s' diagnosis of the ills afflicting Chinese society and for the remedies chosen at the time to cure them. Today few would wish to defend the treatment meted out by Red Guards, but a condemnation of past actions is no substitute for an understanding of what happened and why.

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20 Years On: Four Views on the Cultural Revolution
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The China Quarterly , Volume 108 , December 1986, pp. 643 - 651
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1986

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