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Borderland Memories

Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvMartin T. Fromm,Martin T Fromm

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In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia-Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-07
Mått158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
Antal sidor304
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108475921

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Introduction; 1. Reconfiguring cultural production in the post-Mao transition; 2. Borderland ambiguities in narratives of modernization and liberation; 3. Relocating the nation outside the nation: forging a borderland-centered nationalist discourse; 4. The 'historical science' of Wenshi Ziliao; 5. Affective community and historical rehabilitation: 'widely making friends' to re-secure political loyalty; 6. Mobilizing a 'patriotic united front'; 7. Local, regional, and national dynamics of Wenshi Ziliao production; Conclusion.

'In this prodigiously well-researched book, Martin T. Fromm traces the process of constructing an always incomplete ideological consensus in 1980s China, showing how post-Mao political discourse was the continuously negotiated product of a flexible, mediated, and in many ways collaborative effort. This is a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the Deng era.' Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona