Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure. Most accounts of the movement have portrayed a struggle among Red Guards as a social conflict that pitted privileged “conservative” students against socially marginalized “radicals” who sought to change an oppressive social and political system. Walder employs newly available documentary evidence and the recent memoirs of former Red Guard leaders and members to demonstrate that on both sides of the bitter conflict were students from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, who shared similar—largely defensive—motivations. The intensity of the conflict and the depth of the divisions were an expression of authoritarian political structures that continued to exert an irresistible pull on student motives and actions, even in the midst of their rebellion. Walder’s nuanced account challenges the main themes of an entire generation of scholarship about the social conflicts of China’s Cultural Revolution, shedding light on the most tragic and poorly understood period of recent Chinese history.

Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential “revolutionary” leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.

六七暴动，亦称六七左派工会暴动、五月风暴，当时参与者称之为反英抗暴，1967年5月于香港爆发。香港亲共的左派在中国大陆文化大革命的影响下，展开对抗英国殖民政府的暴动。事件由最初的罢工、示威，发展至后期的暗杀、放置炸弹。结果51人直接在暴动中丧失性命，另外超过800人受伤 这几年第一本敢捅这个马蜂窝的书，是张家伟2000年着的《香港六七暴动内情》。 張家偉是個記者，屬於香港土生土長年青一代，應該未親身經歷“六七年暴動”，他重新編排的有關歷史，是通過舊報章和訪問輯成的。张家伟是个记者，属于香港土生土长年青一代，应该未亲身经历“六七年暴动”，他重新编排的有关历史，是通过旧报章和访问辑成的。 《香港六七暴動內情》著筆客觀，翻查資料努力，但整體成績並不能完全滿足讀者要求，出來的結果顯然較表面化，與書名強調的‘內情’距離甚遠。《香港六七暴动内情》着笔客观，翻查资料努力，但整体成绩并不能完全满足读者要求，出来的结果显然较表面化，与书名强调的‘内情’距离甚远。

《特别辩护:为林彪、江青反革命集团案主犯辩护纪实》意在留下律师为“林、江集团”案主犯辩护的历史资料，所以只写了庭审姚文元、陈伯达、吴法宪、李作鹏、江腾蛟时的律师辩护；而没有请律师辩护的张春桥、王洪文、黄永胜、邱会作等被告人的庭审情况，则不在写作之列。江青虽然庭审时没有辩护律师，但她还是提出聘请律师，并且有三位律师两次与之会见，在“会见被告人”一章，自然应有会见她的篇幅。与此相联系，也将“庭审江青及其自我辩护”列为一章，以便读者了解江青在受审活动中的情况。