The Chinese Communist Party During the Cultural Revolution: The Case of the Sixty-One Renegades - Paperback

by P. Lubell (Author)

In 1936 a group of Chinese communists were released from jail after a humiliating renunciation of communism. The Chinese Communist Party then secretly employed them to galvanise support in nationalist areas of the country. It later condemned the members of this group as renegades before finally rehabilitating them in 1978. Pamela Lubell uncovers the fascinating history of these communists, known as the Sixty-one, and in doing so produces a revealing account of the tensions within the Chinese Communist Party.

Author Biography

PAMELA LUBELL is a Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and teaches modern Chinese history at the Hebrew University's Department of East Asian Studies. She was a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, 1998-1999.