Books in the Cambridge Studies in the Histo series

"A rich and captivating social and political history of Shanghai, one of the world's most complex cities, under high socialism. Using the metaphor of Tai Chi, Hanchao Lu explores how people experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture"--

In the 1980s, a Chinese state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. These histories are the basis of this innovative study of ideology formation and political mobilization, post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation, and the recovery of borderland identities in early post-Mao China.