The Healthy Socialist Life In Maoist China 1949 1980

Author : Renée Krusche
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793654564

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The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980 by Renée Krusche Pdf

This book observes the growing importance of individual well-being for collective health in socialist China and the limitations this brought on the authorities. Engaging with contemporary popular media discourse—including handbooks and magazine articles on health and health practices—to demonstrate how biomedical knowledge was ingrained in the readership, this book uncovers the detailed path to health propagated by state media for the Chinese population. This authority-sanctioned discussion opened up a space for talking about a body entwined with production and the personal experience of daily life. Nutrition, exercise, and rest were the main fields in which the party– state encouraged and accommodated healthy behavior to foster a strong population in the wake of the building of the "New China." These three case studies highlight the network of social groups, institutions, and experts involved in the production and implementation of health knowledge as well as the continuity of health discourse itself. Through a thorough exploration of these three pillars of health and the emerging debate on civilization diseases, this book unearths the often-ignored limits of state control over human bodies.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107123700

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A Social History of Maoist China by Felix Wemheuer Pdf

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

Author : Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Xiaofei Kang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004415935

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Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 by Xiaofei Kang Pdf

A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.

Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108169295

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An Urban History of China by Toby Lincoln Pdf

In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world's largest modern urban society. Throughout their long history, Chinese cities have been shaped by interactions with those around the world, and the story of urban China is a crucial part of the history of how the world has become an urban society. Exploring the global connections of Chinese cities, the urban system, urban governance, and daily life alongside introductions to major historical debates and extracts from primary sources, this is essential reading for all those interested in China and in urban history.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804764117

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Private Life under Socialism by Yunxiang Yan Pdf

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

Author : R. Coase,N. Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137019370

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How China Became Capitalist by R. Coase,N. Wang Pdf

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persuasively arguing that the reforms implemented by the Chinese leaders did not represent a concerted attempt to create a capitalist economy, and that it was 'marginal revolutions' that introduced the market and entrepreneurship back to China. Lessons from the West were guided by the traditional Chinese principle of 'seeking truth from facts'. By turning to capitalism, China re-embraced her own cultural roots. How China Became Capitalist challenges received wisdom about the future of the Chinese economy, warning that while China has enormous potential for further growth, the future is clouded by the government's monopoly of ideas and power. Coase and Wang argue that the development of a market for ideas which has a long and revered tradition in China would be integral in bringing about the Chinese dream of social harmony.

Author : Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451654486

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Mao by Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine Pdf

"Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949776769

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Oxford Bibliographies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Davis,Stevan Harrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520082222

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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era by Deborah Davis,Stevan Harrell Pdf

This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.

Author : Naomi Oreskes,John Krige
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262526531

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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War by Naomi Oreskes,John Krige Pdf

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology, meteorology, and other fields. This volume examines science and technology in the context of the Cold War, considering whether the new institutions and institutional arrangements that emerged globally constrained technoscientific inquiry or offered greater opportunities for it. The contributors find that whatever the particular science, and whatever the political system in which that science was operating, the knowledge that was produced bore some relation to the goals of the nation-state. These goals varied from nation to nation; weapons research was emphasized in the United States and the Soviet Union, for example, but in France and China scientific independence and self-reliance dominated. The contributors also consider to what extent the changes to science and technology practices in this era were produced by the specific politics, anxieties, and aspirations of the Cold War. Contributors Elena Aronova, Erik M. Conway, Angela N. H. Creager, David Kaiser, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, George Reisch, Sigrid Schmalzer, Sonja D. Schmid, Matthew Shindell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Zuoyue Wang, Benjamin Wilson

Author : Angang Hu,Yilong Yan,Xiao Tang,Shenglong Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811598333

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2050 China by Angang Hu,Yilong Yan,Xiao Tang,Shenglong Liu Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congress, and according to the “two-stage” strategic plan, this book looks ahead in detail to the overarching objective and sub-objectives of essentially achieving socialist modernization by 2035, discusses the building of a great modern socialist country in all respects from the perspective of the Party’s six-sphere integrated plan of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and national defense construction, and provides policy proposals. This book also analyzes the influence and the effect of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics on the world and it further presents the third centenary goal. In conclusion, this book is an elaboration of the work of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University. It reflects the intellectual innovation in the authors’ research on contemporary China, as well as the authors’ foresight and predictions about China’s future development.

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674286702

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China Under Mao by Andrew G. Walder Pdf

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440395

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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolutions on the evolution of labour relations. The volume examines a wide range of revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering examples from South-America, Africa, Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The volume goes beyond merely examining the place of industrial workers, paying attention to the position of slaves, women working on the front line of civil war, colonial forced labourers, and white collar workers. Contributors are: Knud Andresen, Zsombor Bódy, Pepijn Brandon, Dimitrii Churakov, Gabriel Di Meglio, Kimmo Elo, Adrian Grama, Renate Hürtgen, Peyman Jafari, Marcel van der Linden, Tiina Lintunen, João Carlos Louçã, Stefan Müller, Raquel Varela, and Felix Wemheuer.