On Culture And Cultural Revolution

Author : Alessandro Russo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478012184

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Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo Pdf

In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical “prologue” of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Barbara Mittler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684175185

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A Continuous Revolution by Barbara Mittler Pdf

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art—music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature—from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434463524

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On Culture and Cultural Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040410

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Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals Pdf

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408856512

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The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter Pdf

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture. Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews and archival research at last give voice to the people and the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised the last years of Mao's regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People's Republic of China.

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643361482

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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Xing Lu Pdf

A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effects Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. In Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical practices and persuasive effects of the polarizing political language and symbolic practices used by Communist Party leaders to legitimize their use of power and violence to dehumanize people identified as class enemies. Lu provides close readings of the movement's primary texts—political slogans, official propaganda, wall posters, and the lyrics of mass songs and model operas. She also scrutinizes such ritualistic practices as the loyalty dance, denunciation rallies, political study sessions, and criticism and self-criticism meetings. Lu enriches her rhetorical analyses of these texts with her own story and that of her family, as well as with interviews conducted in China and the United States with individuals who experienced the Cultural Revolution during their teenage years. In her new preface, Lu expresses deep concern about recent nationalism, xenophobia, divisiveness, and violence instigated by the rhetoric of hatred and fear in the United States and across the globe. She hopes that by illuminating the way language shapes perception, thought, and behavior, this book will serve as a reminder of past mistakes so that we may avoid repeating them in the future.

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521875158

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution by Paul Clark Pdf

This book analyzes the Cultural Revolution through the conflict between innovation and a top-down enforcement of modernity.

Author : William A. Joseph,Christine P.W. Wong,David Zweig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171149

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New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution by William A. Joseph,Christine P.W. Wong,David Zweig Pdf

Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.

Author : Roderick MacFarquhar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0231057172

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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar Pdf

The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chines from the mid-1950s to he mid-1960s, this volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward--Mao's utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-fist century by mobilizing his nation's greatest asset: its disciplined, manpower. The effort produced economic disaster and political dissension, and helped to precipitate the Sino-Soviet split. Today's leaders point to it as the beginning of two decades of national trauma, which ended only after the death of Mao and the purge of the Gang of Four. Those leaders have recently authorized the release of a mass of new documentation in the form of political reminiscences, economic statistics, and leaders' speeches. This volume is the first scholarly work to use the new material comprehensively, weaving it into the narrative along with the contemporary record and the revelations published in Red Guard newspapers during the cultural revolution. The result is the most detailed account and analysis to date of what went wrong and why.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847021142

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On Culture and Cultural Revolution by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Joseph Esherick,Paul Pickowicz,Andrew George Walder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003402279

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History by Joseph Esherick,Paul Pickowicz,Andrew George Walder Pdf

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Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : China Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 083512388X

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung by Zedong Mao Pdf

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 1570035431

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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Xing Lu Pdf

Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought death to thousands and persecution to millions. Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical features and explores the persuasive effects of political language and symbolic practices during the period. She examines how leaders of the Communist Party enacted a rhetoric in political contexts to legitimize power and violence and to dehumanize a group of people identified as class enemies.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434463524

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On Culture and Cultural Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.

Author : Michel Oksenberg,Carl Riskin,Ezra F Vogel
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780472038350

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The Cultural Revolution by Michel Oksenberg,Carl Riskin,Ezra F Vogel Pdf

The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values and strategy on the other. The Cultural Revolution collects four papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968. Michel Oksenberg opens the volume by examining the impact of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups including peasants, industrial managers and workers, intellectuals, students, party and government officials, and the military. Carl Riskin is concerned with the economic effects of the revolution, taking up production trends in agriculture and industry, movements in foreign trade, and implications of Masoist economic policies for China's economic growth. Robert A. Scalapino turns to China's foreign policy behavior during this period, arguing that Chinese Communists in general, and Mao in particular, formed foreign policy with a curious combination of cosmic, utopian internationalism and practical ethnocentrism rooted both in Chinese tradition and Communist experience. Ezra F. Vogel closes the volume by exploring the structure of the conflict, the struggles between factions, and the character of those factions.