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POLITICS AND PURGES IN CHINA. By Frederick C. Teiwes. Armonk (NY): M. E. Sharpe. 1994. 1xvii, 644 pp. US$70.00, cloth, ISBN 1-56324-226-5; US$27.95, paper, ISBN 1-56324-227-3.
NOT SINCE Franz Schurmann's monumental sweep, Ideology and Organization in Communist China (1966, Berkeley: University of California Press), has there been research of such depth and breadth to match Frederick Teiwes' study of the norms and practices of elite politics in Mao's China. The main text was first published in 1978, and like Schurmann's it bears republication. M. E. Sharpe is to be thanked for bringing Teiwes' study back into print, with his thoughtful sixty-seven-page new introduction written in 1992, and in an affordable paperback edition. Politics & Purges has...