A graduate of Amherst College, Frederick C. Teiwes received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. From 1969 to 1976 he first taught at Cornell University and then held a research appointment at The Australian National University. Since 1976 he has been on the faculty of the University of Sydney where he currently holds a Personal Chair in Chinese Politics as well as a five-year research appointment as an Australian Senior Research Fellow.Since the publication of the first edition of Politics and Purges in China in 1979, Professor Teiwes has been widely recognized as a leading analyst of Chinese elite politics. His subsequent major works include Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China (1984), and Politics at Mao’s Court (1990). He is currently working on a number of projects concerning CCP elite politics, most notably a reinterpretation of the rise and fall of Lin Biao (with Warren Sun).

• Introduction to the First Edition; Part 1 Doctrine, Methods and Historical Development; Chapter 1 Rectification Doctrine; Chapter 2 The Rectification Process: Methods, Sanctions and Effectiveness; Chapter 3 The Origins of Rectification; Part 2 Rectification According to the Norms, 1950–1957; Chapter 4 Rectification and the Consolidation of Power, 1950–1953; Chapter 5 The Purge of Gao Gang and Rao Shushi; Chapter 6 The Hundred Flowers Experiment; Chapter 7 The Anti-Rightist Campaign; Part 3 The Norms Under Stress: Rectification and Purging, 1957–1965; Chapter 8 Rectification and the Great Leap Forward; Chapter 9 The Dismissal of Peng Dehuai; Chapter 10 Rectification and “Verdict Reversal” during the Crisis Years, 1960–1962; Chapter 11 Socialist Education, 1962–1965; concl Conclusion;