Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng

by Robert Weatherley

Overview

Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, emerging almost out of nowhere following an unexceptional career in Shanxi and Hunan. In just over two years, Hua had been eclipsed by Deng Xiaoping, a more politically shrewd, progressive and charismatic figure. If Hua's rise to power was remarkable, then this fall was even more so.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230542471
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/30/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

ROBERT WEATHERLEY is an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a lawyer with the English law firm Mills & Reeve LLP, and heads the firm's China group. He is the author of The Discourse of Human Rights in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and Politics in China since 1949.

Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations x

Introduction 1

1 The Young Revolutionary: Hua in Shanxi (1921-49) 20

2 Towards Rural Reform: Hua in Hunan (1949-57) 43

3 The Great Leap Forward and the Post-Leap Recovery Period: Hua in Hunan (1958-65) 69

4 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Hua in Hunan (1966-70) 92

5 Entering the Centre: Hua in Beijing (1971-6) 112

6 The Return of Deng Xiaoping: Hua in Decline (1977-80) 141

Conclusion 168

Notes 177

Bibliography 183

Index 192