
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution
Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese Revolution.
Yueran's academic profile is here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yueran-zhang
Here are the recommendations Yueran gave at the end of the episode:
- Mao's China and After: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Maos-China-and-After/Maurice-Meisner/9780684856353
Rise of the Red Engineers: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/rise-red-engineers-cultural-revolution-and-origins-chinas-new-class
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins…
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