The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 15

Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14. Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analyzing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure...

Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14. Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analyzing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, in an effort to understand why he launched the movement. The contributors grapple with the conflict of evidence between what was said favorably about the Cultural Revolution at the time and the often diametrically opposed retrospective accounts. Volume 15, together with Volume 14, provide the most comprehensive and clearest account of how revolutionary China has developed in response to the upheavals initiated by Mao and Teng Hsiao-p'ing.

罗德里克•麦克法夸尔（Roderick MacFarquhar，1930年12月2日-2019年2月10日），英国历史及政治学者、中国问题专家、前英国政治人物，父亲为英国外交官亚历山大•麦克法夸尔爵士，专精于文化大革命史，哈佛大学政府系教授。

费正清（John King Fairbank，1907年5月24日—1991年9月14日），美国人，出生于美国南达科他州，历史学家、汉学家，哈佛大学终身教授，哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心创始人。1932年费正清来到中国，执教清华大学，任讲师，讲授经济史。他在北京认识了梁思成、林徽因夫妇并与他们成为最亲密的朋友。费正清和他夫人费慰梅的中国名字就是梁思成替他们取的。