Fanshen, yay or nay?

[RadioRaheem84]

William Hinton's Fanshen was a big hit back in the 60s. It seems like it would be a good read, but I hear the book is too sympathetic to the Chinese Revolution even though it still criticizes certain aspects of it. Is this true?

The author was a devout Maoist to the end though even so far as to go against the Dengist reforms.

[RED DAVE]

William Hinton's Fanshen was a big hit back in the 60s. It seems like it would be a good read, but I hear the book is too sympathetic to the Chinese Revolution even though it still criticizes certain aspects of it. Is this true?

The author was a devout Maoist to the end though even so far as to go against the Dengist reforms.It's a very good read.

I found the book far too uncritical of political and social phenomena in general and Maoism in particular, but he had a very good eye for detail.

RED DAVE

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Fanshen is on my reading list although I have heard he massively over romanticized Maoism. Interestingly his daughter, Catherine Jean Hinton, a"white" PRC citizen who speaks English with a Chinese accent, works as a professor at a university in Canada.

[Ismail]

even so far as to go against the Dengist reforms.Doesn't everybody?