Surrealpolitik: The Experience of Chinese Experts in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979

Andrew C. Mertha

DOI:10.1353/ACH.2012.0021

Corpus ID: 144347698

Surrealpolitik: The Experience of Chinese Experts in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979

@article{Mertha2012SurrealpolitikTE,
  title={Surrealpolitik: The Experience of Chinese Experts in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979},
  author={Andrew C. Mertha},
  journal={Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review},
  year={2012},
  volume={1},
  pages={338-364}
}

Andrew C. Mertha

Published 2012

Sociology

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review

The literature on Chinese assistance to Democratic Kampuchea (1975‐1979), has tended to be divided into two approaches. The first rests on the argument that the Chinese revolutionary state—particularly the more radical phases such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution—provided both a blueprint and an inspiration for the Cambodian revolution. This approach suggests that Chinese experts in Democratic Kampuchea were akin to revolutionary comrades-in-arms who shared an ideological… CONTINUE READING

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