The Red Guard Generation And Political Activism In China

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231520485

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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang Pdf

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : China
ISBN : 0231149646

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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang Pdf

"A study of the unintended impact of the Red Guard movement and the sent-down campaign on the generation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349073177

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Children of Mao by Anita Chan Pdf

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674268180

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Fractured Rebellion by Andrew G. Walder Pdf

Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure. Most accounts of the movement have portrayed a struggle among Red Guards as a social conflict that pitted privileged “conservative” students against socially marginalized “radicals” who sought to change an oppressive social and political system. Walder employs newly available documentary evidence and the recent memoirs of former Red Guard leaders and members to demonstrate that on both sides of the bitter conflict were students from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, who shared similar—largely defensive—motivations. The intensity of the conflict and the depth of the divisions were an expression of authoritarian political structures that continued to exert an irresistible pull on student motives and actions, even in the midst of their rebellion. Walder’s nuanced account challenges the main themes of an entire generation of scholarship about the social conflicts of China’s Cultural Revolution, shedding light on the most tragic and poorly understood period of recent Chinese history.

Author : Delia Davin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191654039

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Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin Pdf

As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. He was a founder of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and for many years he fought on two fronts, for control of the Party and in an armed struggle for the Party's control of the country. His revolution unified China and began its rise to world power status. He was the architect of the Great Leap Forward that he hoped would make China both prosperous and egalitarian, but instead ended in economic disaster resulting in millions of deaths. It was Mao's growing suspicion of his fellow leaders that led him to launch the Cultural Revolution, and his last years were dogged by ill-health and his despairing attempts to find a successor whom he trusted. Delia Davin provides an invaluable introduction to Mao, showing him in all his complexity; ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, yet a leader who is still detested by some and venerated by others. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740550

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The Cultural Revolution by Richard Curt Kraus Pdf

Examines the radical Chinese Communist movement called the Cultural Revolution, a period of suppression so controversial in China, that the Chinese government forbids a full investigation into it even 50 years later. Original.

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789354895357

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Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang Pdf

A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was declared - the first of many such responses to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis. The book features compelling stories of citizens and civic groups in their struggle against COVID-19. These snapshots from the lockdown capture China at a critical moment, revealing the intricacies of politics, citizenship, morality, community, and digital technology.

Author : Michel Oksenberg,Carl Riskin,Ezra F Vogel
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780231513142

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The Power of the Internet in China by Guobin Yang Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest forms in China and the world, Yang argues, Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces, and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Transnationalism and the tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social change, indicating a new era of informational politics.

Author : Tong Shen,Marianne Yen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472085573

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Almost a Revolution by Tong Shen,Marianne Yen Pdf

An eyewitness account of Tiananmen Spring, available once again to commemorate the ten year anniversary of these historic events of China's recent past

Author : Hans Granqvist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015012191923

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The Red Guard by Hans Granqvist Pdf

Author : Lowell Dittmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520314108

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China's Continuous Revolution by Lowell Dittmer Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Victor Pickard,Guobin Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315393926

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Media Activism in the Digital Age by Victor Pickard,Guobin Yang Pdf

Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research. Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, national, and global levels. Looking at the underlying theories, histories, politics, ideologies, tactics, strategies, and aesthetics, the book takes an expansive view of media activism. It explores how varieties of activism are mediated through communication technologies, how activists deploy strategies for changing the structures of media systems, and how governments and corporations seek to police media activism. From memes to zines, hacktivism to artivism, this volume considers activist practices involving both older kinds of media and newer digital, social, and network-based forms. Media Activism in the Digital Age provides a useful cross-section of this growing field for both students and researchers.

Author : Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein,Guobin Yang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812223514

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The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China by Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein,Guobin Yang Pdf

The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's Internet and social media and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations.