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The Cultural Revolution and China's Search for Political Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Byung-joon Ahn
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Since her traditional empire collapsed China has experimented with many political institutions. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed a revolutionary one-party regime, the pattern of political order has shifted from one form to another. Intra-Party conflicts preceded these shifts, of which the Cultural Revolution represented the culmination. But in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution another shift is taking place, so it too has raised a series of important questions about Chinese politics.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 58 , June 1974 , pp. 249 - 285
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