Rate My Professor Frederick Teiwes

Teiwes is renowned for his scholarship on Chinese elite politics since 1949, particularly the dynamics of leadership, party factionalism, purges, rectification movements, and transitions during the Mao era and beyond, including the roles of Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping in dismantling Maoism. His major publications encompass Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China: From a Charismatic Mao to the Politics of Succession (1984), Politics at Mao’s Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s (1990), Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-65 (1993), The Tragedy of Lin Biao: Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971 (with Warren Sun, 1996), China’s Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59 (with Warren Sun, 1999), and The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976 (with Warren Sun, 2007). Additional contributions include the chapter "Establishment and Consolidation of the New Regime" in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 14 (1987), as well as numerous articles on provincial politics, elite studies, and post-Mao reforms. Through meticulous analysis of primary documents, Teiwes has significantly shaped understandings of the Chinese Communist Party's core political processes.