Chinese Revolution In Practice

Author : Guo Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000970661

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Chinese Revolution in Practice by Guo Wu Pdf

This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China’s transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration. The author examines the movement’s methods of early self-organization, grass-roots level engagement, creation of new modes of expression and popular art forms, manipulation of collective memory, and invention of innovative ways of mass incarceration. Covering developments from 1920 to 1970, the book considers a wide range of Chinese individuals and groups, from early Marxists to political prisoners in the PRC, to illustrate a dynamic, interactive process in which the state and individuals contend with each other. It argues that revolutionary practices in modern China have created a regime that can be conceptualized as an “ideology-military-propaganda” state that prompts further reflection on the relationships between revolution and the state, the state and collective articulation and memory, and the state and reflective individuals in a global context. Illustrating the continuity of the Chinese revolution and past decades’ socialist practices and mechanisms, this study is an ideal resource for scholars of Chinese history, politics, and twentieth-century revolutions.

Author : Guo Wu (Professor of history)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : China
ISBN : 1003440223

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Chinese Revolution in Practice by Guo Wu (Professor of history) Pdf

"This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China's transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration. Illustrating the continuity of the Chinese revolution and past decades' socialist practices and mechanisms, this study is an ideal resource for scholars of Chinese history, politics, and twentieth-century revolutions"--

Author : Edward Lazzerini
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048932563

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The Chinese Revolution by Edward Lazzerini Pdf

The Chinese Revolution is long in the making, an unfolding process that has spanned most of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and ready-reference guide will help students and interested readers to understand the process and the events that have contributed to the ongoing revolution in the most populous nation on earth. Seven essays provide information and analysis of the revolution from the first decades of this century through 1998. Ready-reference components include lengthy biographical sketches of the seventeen most important and influential leaders in twentieth-century Chinese history, and the text of nine primary documents provides direct access to their words, which shaped the Revolution. A timeline of significant events, a glossary of selected terms, and an annotated bibliography of suggested reading for students add value to the guide. The first essay puts the Chinese Revolution into the context of Chinese culture and practice, especially in light of Confucian teaching, and examines national and international events that contributed to the Revolution. Five essays examine specific aspects of the Chinese Revolution: the thought of Mao Zedong; the political philosophy of Deng Xiaoping; the multiethnic character of China; China's relations with the United States and the Soviet Union; and China's interest in Hong Kong and Taiwan. A concluding essay assesses the consequences of the Chinese Revolution. The essays, biographical sketches, primary documents, timeline, and annotated bibliography all contribute to this comprehensive yet accessible student's guide.

Author : Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760462499

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Afterlives of Chinese Communism by Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere Pdf

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 : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520913736

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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution by Arif Dirlik Pdf

Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the Chinese revolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

Author : Zhiguang Yin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004281783

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Politics of Art by Zhiguang Yin Pdf

In Politics of Art Zhiguang Yin investigates the political engagement and theoretical contribution to ideological politics of the intellectuals from Creation Society in the1920s.

Author : Mao Tse-Tung
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786633415

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On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung Pdf

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.

Author : Mao Zedong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1961775352

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On Practice and on Contradiction by Mao Zedong Pdf

Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 to 1976. He was also a important figure in the Chinese revolution and would found the People's Republic of China in 1949. He is upheld to this day as of the most influecial figures in Marxist thought of the 20th century in China and throughout the worldThis book is a collection of two of his most important essays, some of the most approachable explainations of contradition as well as the connection between theory and practice. These essays were delivered by comrade Mao at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political College in Yenan in 1937. They were written to combat the problems of dogmatism the Mao saw in the Communst Party of China at the time.Both essays proved to be fundimental to the development of the Party line, but would later be co-opted by the ultra-left "Maoists" we see today.

Author : James Chieh Hsiung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034937776

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Ideology and Practice by James Chieh Hsiung Pdf

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742530698

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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution by Arif Dirlik Pdf

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 : Kan-Chih Ho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015001414096

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A History of the Modern Chinese Revolution by Kan-Chih Ho Pdf

Author : De Zhong Gao
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656188889

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The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions by De Zhong Gao Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: "-", McGill University, language: English, abstract: Calling for public support and mobilization are generally considered taboo in authoritarian regimes. Yet, during the course of his February 1989 visit to Ukraine, Gorbachev (1931- ) appealed to his public supporters to help fight the enemies of reform and accelerate political and economic reformist programs, “You keep up the pressure. We [the Party] will press from the top, and you keep pressing from the bottom. Only in that way can [social transformations such as] perestroika succeed.” This essay argues that in China, social transformations originate from the mass peasantry, but in order for social transformations to be effective, they need to be transformed into political dogma through effective leadership and party organization. The Rousseauist belief that the “goodness of simple men” can change mankind is not sufficient to revolutionize society, and rule out or alleviate the unilateral class divisions of the old régimes. This essay aims to analyze the role of leadership and the role of the masses in producing social changes in China and addressing regional concerns, and compare the French, Russian and Chinese revolution—of 1949—to illustrate how social transformations are sustained through the coordination of the leadership and mass mobilization. Finally, this essay will also examine how social transformations in China today have exclusively become an affair of party elites, casting aside the role of the masses in social revolutions. [...]

Author : Jiwei Ci
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804723732

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Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution by Jiwei Ci Pdf

In this progression, which the author describes as the unfolding of the hedonistic potential of utopianism, Marxism became China's road to capitalism and consumerism.

Author : John E. Schrecker
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058281729

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The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective by John E. Schrecker Pdf

This fully updated second edition provides a succinct and self-contained history of China. The text emphasizes the relationship between China's modern era and its past, employing a unique approach that presents the story in terms of traditional Chinese historical theories. When the West enters the scene in modern times, Schrecker fits its impact into the Chinese story, rather than the reverse, as is commonly done. This study demonstrates that traditional China was not homogeneous or changeless, thus offering a much-needed corrective to common stereotypes about other cultures that is essential for both classroom use and for the general reader. The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective, available here in a fully updated second edition, provides a succinct and self-contained history of China. The text emphasizes the relationship between China's modern era and its past, employing a unique approach that presents the story in terms of traditional Chinese historical theories. When the West enters the scene in modern times, Schrecker fits its impact into the Chinese story, rather than the reverse, as is commonly done. This study demonstrates that traditional China was not homogeneous or changeless, thus offering a much-needed corrective to common stereotypes about other cultures that is essential for both classroom use and for the general reader. Schrecker's approach permits a full appreciation of the connections between the contemporary scene and the Chinese past—an appreciation that is increasingly important as China moves away from typical Communist practices and returns to more traditional Chinese patterns—for example, recreating a lively entrepreneurial economy of the sort that characterized China for a thousand years. This edition brings China's story up to the present. An additional preface and map are included, along with an updated bibliography and supplemental notes. A new appendix details the traditional understanding of the key Chinese historiographical terms used in the book.

Author : Wolfgang Franke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001341067

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A Century of Chinese Revolution, 1851-1949 by Wolfgang Franke Pdf