Power and Personality in China: Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-Ch'i, and the Politics of Charismatic Succession Available to Purchase

LOWELL DITTMER is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he minored in psychology. He studied in Taiwan in 1968- 1969 and was Research Fellow, Program for Contemporary China of the University of Chicago in 1972-1973; he is also associated with the Center for Chinese Studies of the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Dittmer is the author of Liu Shao-ch'i and the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Mass Criticism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, forthcoming) and “The German NPD: A Psycho-sociological Analysis of 'Nee-Naziism ',” in Comparative Politics, as well as several other journal articles in Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Current Scene, and Pacific Historical Review.