Mao's Forgotten Successor

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-19

3. The Young Revolutionary: Hua in Shanxi (1921–49)

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   Pages 20-42

4. Towards Rural Reform: Hua in Hunan (1949–57)

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   Pages 43-68

5. The Great Leap Forward and the Post-Leap Recovery Period: Hua in Hunan (1958–65)

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   Pages 69-91

6. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Hua in Hunan (1966–70)

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   Pages 92-111

7. Entering the Centre: Hua in Beijing (1971–6)

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   Pages 112-140

8. The Return of Deng Xiaoping: Hua in Decline (1977–80)

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   Pages 141-167

9. Conclusion

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   Pages 168-176

10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-203

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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.

• bibliography
• boundary element method
• career
• Eclipse
• knowledge
• list of abbreviations
• progressive
• Recovery
• reform
• revolution
• success

• Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, UK

  Robert Weatherley

• Mills Reeve LLP, UK

  Robert Weatherley

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.

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