Hachette India

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Yang Jisheng

Stacy Mosher

Guo Jian

• The World Turned Upside Down is the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China

• It cannot, however, appear in mainland China as it is banned there; it was originally published in Hong Kong

• Yang Jisheng lived through the cultural revolution, and took part in it

• He was awarded The Stieg Larsson prize in 2015 for his 'stubborn and courageous work in mapping and describing the consequences' of The Great Leap Forward, and the 2016 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964, and worked for Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001. He was a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu (Chronicles of History), an official journal that regularly skirts censorship with articles on controversial political topics. He is the author of the book Tombstone.