Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563242274)

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).