Conventional knowledge of the Cultural Revolution has been dominated by either themes of elite conflicts, or disembodied images of irrational crowds scouring the country with spears and sticks. This course will consider the Cultural Revolution as a field of historical research and theoretical inquiry. What was the meaning of Dzculturedz in the Cultural Revolution? To what extent was it revolutionary? If the Cultural Revolution was all about class and class struggle, what did really it mean to talk about class during the movement? How do we think about China's present in the context of the Cultural Revolution? The course will pose issues of historical, political, and theoretical perspectives, raising the question of how the Cultural Revolution can be made thinkable in the Chinese present.