Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People's Republic.
- ISBN10 0674119703
- ISBN13 9780674119703
- Publish Date 25 September 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English