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Liang Jiesheng's The World Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in devastating and heartbreaking detail. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) represented a major political event and a decisive turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, as it represented the peak and decline of Mao Zedong's extreme left-wing policies. Partly in response to Soviet "revisionism," which he saw as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao rallied the masses in battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party. This large-scale class struggle, which lasted ten years, wreaked havoc on traditional Chinese culture and the national economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, Yang Jising here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution written by an independent scholar based in mainland China, making a decisive contribution to understanding the impact of those years today.