Cultural Revolution

A Captivating Guide to the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia, Duke Holm

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then pay attention...

Two captivating manuscripts in this audiobook:

• The Cultural Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Decade-Long Upheaval in China Unleashed by Mao Zedong to Preserve Chinese Communism
• Mao Zedong: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultural Revolution and the Political Theory of Maoism

Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:

• Mao Zedong’s Early Life, Rise to Power, and the Government Upheaval That Changed China During the First Half of the 20th Century
• The Suspicion Behind the United Face
• The Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward, and the Events Leading to the Cultural Revolution
• Fighting the Capitalism of the West
• The Introduction of Revolution
• The Red Guards
• July 20th Incident
• Border Clashes with the Communist Soviets
• Lin Biao - the Successor and Opponent
• Health Issues and Slipping Grip on the Revolution
• The 10th Congress and the Shifting of Power
• Mass Killings in China and Devastation in Northern China
• End of the Cultural Revolution
• Lasting Effects
• And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include:

• Early Life
• Political Awakenings
• Beijing
• May Fourth and the New Culture Movement
• The Communist Party of China’s Growing Pains
• The Northern Expedition
• Communists at Large
• The Long March
• The People’s Republic of China
• The Great Leap Forward
• The Cultural Revolution
• What Did Maoism Stand For?
• And much more!

So, if you want to learn more about the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!

©2020 Captivating History (P)2020 Captivating History

An Interesting Way To Look At Revolution.

I had listened to the audiobook, "After the Bitter Comes the Sweet", from the wife, the author, about their experiences in China from the time the Japanese occupied it. This was CH's experience and together, they gave an excellent first-person account of China and the Communist experience.

Open and honest, prisoners taken

I have listened to Sidney Rittenberg interacting with CCP since but never imaged he had been so strongly involved. Through him, I can take a peek at the dark period of Chinese history from another prospect. Also, I am amazed by the fact that he could go through a roller coaster life in China. That is unimaginable.

Cultural Revolution China

What an enlightening audiobook! The author’s balanced use of individual stories and hard statistics make this book a must-have. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I started I could not stand.
I highly recommend this audiobook to anyone seriously interested in China.

A sobering content....

A very informative and well-created audiobook on a piece of history is not really discussed deeply in many historical chronicles. This piece is widespread with reliable research behind it.

A concise sketch of Mao's life

Not knowing enough about China and the history of Mao Zedong except the very basics, I pulled this audiobook up to learn more. The first half concentrated on Mao’s early life and struggles the most exciting. It’s slightly astonishing how an intellectually inquisitive farm boy eventually ended up as the leader of all China, really well done.

Good Enough

I now need to set off and see something other than the footnoted sources to the major events of the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. but good coverage of his youth.

Good authentic count of Mao's life

Mao was a man of goals, unbelievable courage and determination, and influence. He united China and raised the status of women superbly. He was a visionary until he seized power, then for a fraction of a century, he had no idea what to do with it and nearly slaughtered all his work. Spence shows all this interestingly and convincingly. I clearly learned a lot about both sides of this dubious man.

The man with incredible life

One of my close friends lived and worked in China in the early 1980s. So much of what I saw and heard has troubled me since then -- was it original? Rittenberg is an improbable man to have remained what he did and to end up, in his 90s, a great guy with a confident outlook on life.

Detailed interesting full of info

Captivating History has done serious work about Maoist China that is extremely well researched and has some very eye-opening information about the years when China was closed off to the rest of the world. It is a difficult read, but worthwhile.

Challenging work but worth it

The work is great but the only point of controversy is its weakness to contest some of the ideological reasonings provided by Mao in answer to imperialistic failure that may have sparked Mao's fear. Other than that, extremely well composed and highly recommended!