book
Mao’s Last Revolution
MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao’s Last Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Why this matters here
MacFarquhar and Schoenhals’s Mao’s Last Revolution recounts the Cultural Revolution’s later demobilization, institutional rebuilding, and the political aftermath around Mao’s final years, including the turn that renamed the decade’s extremes as chaos to be escaped. When Interpretation No Longer Matters cites that ending to mark that fevered criticism was not permanent settlement—aftermath itself still requires ethical scrutiny. The source is a political history of the Revolution’s close; the book asks what “criticism” was doing when it could not correct.
