{"product_id":"9781250829702","title":"The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eYang Jisheng’s \u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Following \u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e, his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding the lasting influence of those years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e 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 a Mao-style cult of personality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057132290288,"sku":"9781250829702","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250829702_p0.jpg?v=1763704473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250829702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}