Author: Wang Fanxi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-05-18
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004421564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With its clear and provoking thesis, this classic study of Mao has stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone
Author: Woei Lien Chong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780742518742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth. Contributions by: Anne-Marie Brady, Woei Lien Chong, Lowell Dittmer, Monika Gaenssbauer, Nick Knight, Stefan R. Landsberger, Nora Sausmikat, Barend J. ter Haar, Natascha Vittinghoff, and Lan Yang.
Author: Philip Corrigan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1979-06-17
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 134903455X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arif Dirlik
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780742530690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the socialist response was unable to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.
Author: Tang Tsou
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0226815145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Tsou, one of the country's senior and most widely respected China scholars, has for more than a generation been producing timely and deeply informed essays on Chinese politics as it develops. Eight of these (from a wide variety of sources) are gathered here with a substantial new introduction. Tsou considers events not simply from the point of view of a widely read political scientist (even political philosopher) and a concerned Chinese, but also in the light of history, the dynamics of Marxism-Leninism, individual personalities, and humane realism."—Charles W. Hayford, Library Journal
Author: Joseph Esherick
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13:
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Author: Gregor Benton
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensively indexed and with an introduction newly written by the editor, a leading expert in the field,Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolutionis sure to be recognized as a vital reference resource for all serious Mao scholars.
Author: Christian Sorace
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1760462497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.
Author: Richard Baum
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780131326705
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