Rise and fall of the Red Guards - Mao Zedong's last years - New Rural Revolution - Renewal of urban China - 1983-1989 - Beijing Massacre - Tibet, 1989-1994 - Cultural stirrings after Mao - Deng - Return of Hong Kong to China
Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward
An expansion and recasting of the observations made by 9 members of the Yomiuri Task Force who visited Communist China in 1966 and 1967