A chronological account is provided of the psychopolitical research that led to The Revenge of Heaven, an idiographic study of China's Cultural Revolution, including the problems encountered and their resolution. The underlying methodological rationale is explicitly discussed—one which explores the use of literary techniques and conceptions in psychological reportage as a way of reconstituting perceived reality from the data.
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