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Mao, Solomon and the Problem of Social Science: Two Views On Chinese Political Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Thomas A. Metzger
Thomas A. Metzger
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

Richard A. Solomon's book, Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), suffers especially from a faulty approach to the political culture of traditional China. Neglecting documentary sources, Solomon fails to understand the role of legitimated protest in traditional China, and this failure in turn limits his understanding of how values have changed in China under Mao. His book, however, contains much interesting factual material about Chinese attitudes toward authority and about politics in the CPR.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , November 1972 , pp. 101 - 105
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972

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* Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture. By Richard A. Solomon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. 650 pp. $16.50.