China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.Contributions by: Anne-Marie Brady, Woei Lien Chong, Lowell Dittmer, Monika Gaenssbauer, Nick Knight, Stefan R. Landsberger, Nora Sausmikat, Barend J. ter Haar, Natascha Vittinghoff, and Lan Yang.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-07-31
Mått149 x 227 x 27 mm
Vikt667 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsia/Pacific/Perspectives
Antal sidor432
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742518742

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IntroductionPart I: Master NarrativesChapter 1: Rethinking China's Cultural Revolution amid ReformChapter 2: China's Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological ParadigmChapter 3: From Harmony to Struggle, from Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong's ThoughtChapter 4: Red and Expert: China's "Foreign Friends" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966–1969Chapter 5: The Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and BeyondChapter 6: The Ideal Socialist Hero: Literary Conventions in Cultural Revolution NovelsPart II: Post-Mao CounternarrativesChapter 7: Philosophy in an Age of Crisis. Three Thinkers in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Li Zehou, Liu Xiaobo, and Liu XiaofengChapter 8: Resisting Current Stereotypes: Private Narrative Strategies in the Autobiographies of Former Rusticated WomenChapter 9: China's Generation X: Rusticated Red Guards in Controversial Contemporary PlaysChapter 10: The Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai's Fiction

A very professional collection of essays. Standards of scholarship are high, and the essays are often provocative and informative....Many readers would benefit from its careful assessments, especially as the Western propaganda media too often simplify the Cultural Revolution as a cartoon of mob rule in which members of the Red Guard generation apparently spent an entire decade doing nothing but worshipping Mao and beating their teachers to death.