Topic:

• Mao's rapprochement of with United States
• Lin Biao Affair
• Gang of  Four
• deaths of Zhou Enai and Mao Zedong
• Three World Theory

Readings:

Ross, Robert S. From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China’s U.S. Policy.The China Quarterly. No. 118, Jun 1989. Page 265-299. 34 pages. (Available in journals.cambridge.org database).