

The World Turned Upside Down
A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian
Narrator: Nancy Wu
Unabridged: 26 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/30/2021
Synopsis
Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today.
The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.