Daniel Leese is Professor of Chinese History and Politics at the University of Freiburg. Amanda Shuman is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Freiburg.

'In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, a regime that was responsible for millions of deaths attempted to 'bring order out of chaos' by carefully, quietly, and systematically reckoning with the traumas of the Mao Zedong years. Leese and Shuman have assembled an all-star team of authors whose chapters sparkle with gripping intensity, showing how an authoritarian system's attempts to offer justice and compensation have strengthened single-party rule while exacerbating and prolonging some survivors' fears and traumas. Full of penetrating insights based on deep readings of rare sources, this book pushes the field of the history of the People's Republic of China to a new level.' Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University

• Introduction Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman; Part I. Property: 1. Between revolution and law: Merchant families' struggles for property rights and justice under Mao and Deng, 1949–1984 Zhaojin Zeng; 2. What right to property when rebellion is justified? Revolution and restitution in Shanghai Puck Engman; 3. The pursuit of transitional justice from below: A case study from Shanghai Qin Shao; Part II. The Mechanics of Rehabilitation: 4. Dealing with victims of the Cultural Revolution: The case of the Guangxi killings, 1983–1987 Guoqing Song; 5. Villagers, cadres, and the politics of rehabilitation in post-Mao China, 1979–1982 Long Yang; Part III. The Politics of Truth: 6. Local reassessment versus central prestige: Tao Zhu, land reform, and the Pine Hill incident Mark Czeller; 7. New verdicts on the printed page: Expurgating the ,Gang of Four, in the publishing industry, 1976–1978 Matthew Wills; Part IV. Memory: 8. Narratives and voices of Cultural Revolution ,perpetrators, Man Zhang; 9. Coping with a traumatic past: Wang Bing's documentaries He Fengming and Dead Souls Flora Lichaa; 10. From individual guilt to public remorse: The ,Confessions, (Chanhuilu) column in the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu Sebastian Veg; Afterword: The Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical justice in perspective Daniel Leese.

Daniel Leese is Professor of Chinese History and Politics at the University of Freiburg. Amanda Shuman is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Freiburg.

'In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, a regime that was responsible for millions of deaths attempted to 'bring order out of chaos' by carefully, quietly, and systematically reckoning with the traumas of the Mao Zedong years. Leese and Shuman have assembled an all-star team of authors whose chapters sparkle with gripping intensity, showing how an authoritarian system's attempts to offer justice and compensation have strengthened single-party rule while exacerbating and prolonging some survivors' fears and traumas. Full of penetrating insights based on deep readings of rare sources, this book pushes the field of the history of the People's Republic of China to a new level.' Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University

• Introduction Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman; Part I. Property: 1. Between revolution and law: Merchant families' struggles for property rights and justice under Mao and Deng, 1949–1984 Zhaojin Zeng; 2. What right to property when rebellion is justified? Revolution and restitution in Shanghai Puck Engman; 3. The pursuit of transitional justice from below: A case study from Shanghai Qin Shao; Part II. The Mechanics of Rehabilitation: 4. Dealing with victims of the Cultural Revolution: The case of the Guangxi killings, 1983–1987 Guoqing Song; 5. Villagers, cadres, and the politics of rehabilitation in post-Mao China, 1979–1982 Long Yang; Part III. The Politics of Truth: 6. Local reassessment versus central prestige: Tao Zhu, land reform, and the Pine Hill incident Mark Czeller; 7. New verdicts on the printed page: Expurgating the ,Gang of Four, in the publishing industry, 1976–1978 Matthew Wills; Part IV. Memory: 8. Narratives and voices of Cultural Revolution ,perpetrators, Man Zhang; 9. Coping with a traumatic past: Wang Bing's documentaries He Fengming and Dead Souls Flora Lichaa; 10. From individual guilt to public remorse: The ,Confessions, (Chanhuilu) column in the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu Sebastian Veg; Afterword: The Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical justice in perspective Daniel Leese.

Daniel Leese is Professor of Chinese History and Politics at the University of Freiburg. Amanda Shuman is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Freiburg.

'In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, a regime that was responsible for millions of deaths attempted to 'bring order out of chaos' by carefully, quietly, and systematically reckoning with the traumas of the Mao Zedong years. Leese and Shuman have assembled an all-star team of authors whose chapters sparkle with gripping intensity, showing how an authoritarian system's attempts to offer justice and compensation have strengthened single-party rule while exacerbating and prolonging some survivors' fears and traumas. Full of penetrating insights based on deep readings of rare sources, this book pushes the field of the history of the People's Republic of China to a new level.' Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University

• Introduction Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman; Part I. Property: 1. Between revolution and law: Merchant families' struggles for property rights and justice under Mao and Deng, 1949–1984 Zhaojin Zeng; 2. What right to property when rebellion is justified? Revolution and restitution in Shanghai Puck Engman; 3. The pursuit of transitional justice from below: A case study from Shanghai Qin Shao; Part II. The Mechanics of Rehabilitation: 4. Dealing with victims of the Cultural Revolution: The case of the Guangxi killings, 1983–1987 Guoqing Song; 5. Villagers, cadres, and the politics of rehabilitation in post-Mao China, 1979–1982 Long Yang; Part III. The Politics of Truth: 6. Local reassessment versus central prestige: Tao Zhu, land reform, and the Pine Hill incident Mark Czeller; 7. New verdicts on the printed page: Expurgating the ,Gang of Four, in the publishing industry, 1976–1978 Matthew Wills; Part IV. Memory: 8. Narratives and voices of Cultural Revolution ,perpetrators, Man Zhang; 9. Coping with a traumatic past: Wang Bing's documentaries He Fengming and Dead Souls Flora Lichaa; 10. From individual guilt to public remorse: The ,Confessions, (Chanhuilu) column in the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu Sebastian Veg; Afterword: The Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical justice in perspective Daniel Leese.