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Studies in on recent developments in the People’s Republic of based on the extensive use of so far untranslated in Chinese are rare. The few publica­ tions of this kind are mainly documentations or studies on minor subjects. All the more the book under review has to be appreciated as it deals with the fundamental ideological questions of the Cultural Revolution. The author’s basic sources are about 140 periodicals and other publications by Maoist red-guards during the years 1966 through 1968 available at the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University. In the light of these sources the author analyses ideology and politics of the two opposite lines within the Chinese CP which he labels “Maoist” and “Liuist”. He understands, however, these labels not personally as short designations for two alternatives of society building. Thus Entmaoisierung is equal to the liquidation of the Maoist perspective of a completely egalitarian pattern of society as prac­ ticed in particular during the days of the revolutionary struggle in favour of the Liuist pattern of efficiency. According to this pattern experts may be encouraged for the sake of technical and economic efficiency; thereby the division of labour is increased and eventually the emergence of new elites is initiated — even if this is not the aim of Liuist thinking. Ent­ maoisierung is almost the same as revisionism. After author