The conclusive scene: Mao and the red guards in July 1968

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Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 535-574

  Russo, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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EID: 33747891981     PISSN: 10679847     EISSN: 15278271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-13-3-535     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. According to William Hinton, author of a book of inquiry written a few years after the events, thirty thousand workers took part in the demonstration in an organized way, and at least as many joined spontaneously. See Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972)
2. Hinton, La Guerra dei cento giorni: Rivoluzione culturale e studenti in Cina, trans. Silvia Calamandrei (Turin: Einaudi, 1974), 182
3. A reconstruction of the factional contradictions at Qinghua, based on interviews with the participants, may be found in Joel Andreas, "Political and Cultural Capital as Axes of Contention in Student Factional Conflict during the Chinese Cultural Revolution," Theory and Society 31 (2002): 463-519
4. Hinton, La Guerra dei cento giorni
5. "Mao zhuxi guanyu zhizhi wudou wenti de zhishi jingshen yaodian" ("Basic Points of the Directives of Chairman Mao on the Cessation of the Armed Struggle"), reproduced in "Wenhua da geming" yanjiu ziliao (Material for the Study of the "Great Cultural Revolution"), vol. 2 (Beijing: Guofang Daxue, 1988), 153-54
6. The document that resumes the main passages of the above-cited interventions of Mao and Lin Biao was written under the supervision of a member of the Central Group, Xie Fuzhi, and was signed by all five leaders of the Red Guards. On this episode, see Wang Nianyi, Da dongluan de niandai (The Years of the Great Disorder) (Zhengzhou: Henan Renmin Chubanshe, 1988), 302-3
7. Alessandro Russo, "The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution," in New Asian Marxisms, ed. Tani Barlow (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 311-32, originally published in positions 6 (1998): 179-202
8. Russo, "Probable Defeat."
9. Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia, trans. C. Piscgedda (Torino: Einaudi, 1969), 56
10. the transcripts by Li Rui of the face-to-face disputes between Mao and Peng Dehuai at the Lushan conference of 1959 (Lushan huiyi shilu [The True Records of the Lushan Conference] [Zhengzhou: Henan Renmin Chubanshe, 1999])
11. and various of Mao's talks with other central leaders in the 1950s and 1960s collected in the above-quoted Mao Zedong sixiang wansui and in other Red Guard publications. Two editions of Mao's texts in English are based on these sources: Mao Tse-tung Unrehearsed: Talks and Letters, 1956-71, ed. Stuart Schram (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1974)
12. Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene Wu, eds., The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989)