Wind in the tower : Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1949-1975 / Han Suyin.

Sequel to 'The Morning Deluge'.

Includes index.

Includes a black and white map of the People's Republic of China in the inner lining of the book. The map contains names of geographical features (lakes, oceans, rivers) and political features including various historical Demarcation Lines. The map has province and city information for China as well as city information from surrounding countries (India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Japan, USSR, Philippines, Korea and Mongolian People's Republic).

Part I. The building of new China : 1. The road to the future -- 2. The economic base: Agriculture and Industry, 1949 -1955 -- 3. The superstructure, the Party struggle and Confucius -- 4. Thought remolding and the intelligentsia -- 5. The Ten Great Contradictions -- 6. The Hundred Flowers -- 7. East wind, west wind: China, USSR, and the United States, 1949 - 1957 -- 8. The Great Leap Forward and the Communes, 1958 - 1959 -- 9. The Tenth Year: 1959 and the second major struggle in the Party since 1949 -- 10. The years of endurance: September 1959 to September 1962 -- 11. Mao Tsetung against revisionism, 1960 - 1962 --

Part II. The Cultural Revolution and after : 1. Prelude, 1962 - 1965 -- 2. Revisionism and imperialism -- 3. The Cultural Revolution swings into action -- 4. The torturous zigzags of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1967 -- 5. Construction after destruction, 1968-1971 -- 6. China and the world -- 7. Mao Tsetung, Confucius and the future.

"'Wind in the Tower' completes Han Suyin's monumental biography of Mao Tsetung; it the is culmination of the only history of the Chinese Revolution complete with the life story of that revolution's architect. The first volume, 'The Morning Deluge', followed Mao's career through World War II and the struggle against Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces. The present volume covers the building stage of the continuing revolution, from its triumph in 1949 to the current thaw in relations with the United States. The scope of the book is enormous: the shift of administration from the People's Liberation Army to civilian control; the Great Leap Forward (an accelerated revolution within a revolution); Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom (the encouragement of debate inside an authoritarian government); the rift with the Soviet Union; armed conflict with India; the Cultural Revolution; and wars in Indochina. Dr. Han clarifies many of the confusing shifts in Chinese domestic and foreign policy by stressing Mao's concern for the purity of the revolution, his effort to save the Chinese Revolution from what he considers has ensnared the Russian one: allowing a new, technocratic ruling class to take power. Mao's life is inseparable from the 'continuous drama' of China's transformation. If one seeks to understand the significance of either the man or the historical movement; it is necessary to examine this interchange. Han Suyin traces the development of Mao's living ideas as they have been felt and implemented by the Chinese people, and pays close attention to emotional components of the revolution and cultural nuances. Consequently her achievement is both spirited history and powerful biography. 'Wind in the Tower' is leavened with the insight and vast knowledge that Han Suyin has accumulated in traveling through China during each of the past twenty years. Like 'The Morning Deluge', it is explicitly sympathetic to Mao Tsetung, and will prove controversial. Because of Dr. Han's exhaustive research and narrative gifts though it is an indispensable source of light on the life and thought of this galvanic, fascinating, enigmatic figure." -- From the dust-jacket.