Origins of the Cultural Revolution - MacFarquhar, Roderick (Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University)

The final volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. It focuses on various events - political, economic, intellectual, military, and international - in the years leading up to the Cultural Revolution.