Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Prelude -- 1. Linguistic Engineering: Theoretical Considerations -- 2. Linguistic Engineering before the Cultural Revolution -- II. Mass Mobilization, Language, and Interpretation, 1966-1968 -- 3. Mao's Revolutionary Strategy, 1966-1968: Contexts, Interpretive Principles, and Capitalist Roaders -- 4. Revolutionary Conformity, Public Criticism, and Formulae -- 5. Dichotomies, Demons, and Violence -- III. Institutionalizing the Cultural Revolution, 1968-1976 -- 6. Creating Referents and Controlling the Word -- 7. Controlling Culture: Literature and Dramatic Art -- 8. Educating Revolutionaries: The Case of English Language Teaching -- IV. Assessment -- 9. China's Great Experiment: Intensity, Success, and Failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index