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III, Lynn Townsend White was born on September 16, 1941 in Stanford, California, United States. Son of Lynn Townsend Junior and Maude (McArthur) W.
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Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution (Princeton Legacy Library) by Lynn T. White III (1991-07-29)
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Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution (Princeton Legacy Library)
( The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is oft...)
The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is often blamed on a few leaders in Beijing, or on long-term egalitarian ideals, or on communist or Chinese political cultures. Lynn White shows, however, that the chaos resulted mainly from reactions by masses of individuals and small groups to three specific policies of administrative manipulation: labeling groups, designating bosses, and legitimating violence in political campaigns. These habits of local organization were common after 1949 and gave the state success in short-term revolutionary aims, despite scarce resources and staff--but they also drove millions to attack each other later. First, measures accumulated before 1966 to give people bad or good names (such as "rightist" or "worker"); these set a family's access to employment, education, residence, and rations--so they gave interests to potential conflict groups. Second, policies for bossism went far beyond Confucian patronage patterns, making work units tightly dependent on Party monitors--so rational individuals either pandered to local bosses or (when they could) deposed them. Third, the institutionalized violence of political campaigns both mobilized activists and scared others into compliance. These organizational measures were often effective in the short run before 1966 but accumulated social costs that China paid later. The book ends with comparisons to past cases of mass urban ostracism in other countries, and it suggests how such tragedies may be forecast or prevented in the future. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Lynn Townsend White III
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Lynn Townsend White III, American Political science educator. University of California fellow, 1963-1967, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1988-1989. Master Forbes College, 1987-1988; trustee Princeton-in-Asia, since 1982. Member Association for Asian Studies, American Political Science Association.
Education
Bachelor in Political Economy, Williams College, 1963; Master of Arts in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1972.
Career
With legislation research division, Democratic Study Group, Washington, 1962; instructor, New Asia College, Hong Kong, 1963; research associate Center for S.E. Asian Studies, Kyoto U., Japan, 1970-1971; instructor political science department, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1973, 88-; professor Woodrow Wilson School Politics and East Asian Studies, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1973. Visiting scholar U. Hong Kong Center for Asian Studies, 1988-1989.
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Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution (Princeton Legacy Library)
( The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is oft...)
- Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution (Princeton Legacy Library) by Lynn T. White III (1991-07-29)
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Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution (Princeton Legacy Library)
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Master Forbes College, 1987-1988. Trustee Princeton-in-Asia, since 1982. Member Association for Asian Studies, American Political Science Association.
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Married Barbara Sue White, May 30, 1965. Children: Jeremy Townsend, Kevin McArthur.
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Democrat