ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to trace the origins of the GPCR and of Liu's fall, two events so intimately linked (in that Liu stood for what the GPCR was intended to renounce ) that to disentangle their respective causes is an exercise in informed speculation. The inquiry will proceed by way of testing two "ideal types," each of which proposes a different sequence of action and motive preceding the GPCR, each of which contains a different implicit conception of the nature of top-level politics in China in the early 1960s.
