Authority Participation and Cultural Change in China: Essays by a European Study Group

Contemporary China Institute Publications

by Stuart R. Schram (Introduction)

This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on the immediate consequences and the likely long-term effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the enormous social and political upheaval initiated by Mao Tse-Tung in 1966. The authors discuss a series of connected problems, all intimately related to the central theme of leadership and participation in the Chinese pattern of economic development and social change. The collection is edited by Stuart Schram, who also provides a long introduction; he puts the Cultural Revolution in the broad historical perspective of the Chinese revolution as it has taken shape since the end of the nineteenth century.

357 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 1973

About the author

Stuart Reynolds Schram was an American physicist, political scientist and sinologist who specialized in the study of modern Chinese politics.