How Maoism Was Made

Aaron William Moore is the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of two books: Writing War (2013), which analysed over 200 combat soldiers' diaries from China, Japan, and the United States, and Bombing the City (2018), which compared the air raid experiences of civilians in British and Japanese regional cities. In addition to the history of early East Asian science fiction, he is currently working on a book about the global experiences of wartime youth. In 2014 he was awarded the Leverhulme Prize for his work on transnational and comparative history.Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese History and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. Her research focuses on the history of modern China, especially the history of industrial design, materiality, and everyday life. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 (2018) and together with Denise Y. Ho of Material Contradictions in Mao's China (2022). She is also the editor of the online resource "The Mao Era in Objects" and is currently working on a book titled Designing Socialism: Furniture and Mass Production in China.

• Introduction: The Early People's Republic of China Between Theory and PracticePart 1: Society and Political Economy1: Toby Lincoln: Making a 'New Changsha': Reconstructing China's Devastated City, 1945-19592: Benno Weiner: Mediating Disputes, Making Minzu: Minoritization on an Ethnocultural Frontier of Early Maoist China3: Fabio Lanza: The Political Economy of the Everyday: Theory and Praxis in the Urban Commune4: Wenyu Jing and Felix Wemheuer: Seeing Like the Maoist State: Peasant Resistance in 1950s Court DocumentsPart 2: The Revolutionary Self5: Aaron William Moore: The Final Revolution Is in Our Hearts: Work and Study in Personal Diaries of the Early People's Republic of China6: Aminda M. Smith: Brainwashing and World Revolution7: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez: Constructing the Maoist Sexual Subject: 1950s Hygiene Guides and the Production of Sexual KnowledgePart 3: Material Culture and Everyday Life8: Jennifer Altehenger: How to Standardize Life in 'New China': The Case of Furniture9: Christine I. Ho: Mass Muralism and Mass Creativity in the Early People's Republic of China10: Zhejiang Xiaoxuan Wang: An Unlikely Moment of Revival? The Return of Gods in Early 1960sPart 4: Expertise and Revolutionary Epistemology11: Shellen Xiao Wu: How Geography Won the Battle and Geographers Lost the War12: Covell Meyskens: Marvelling at a World so Changed': The Three Gorges Project in Mao's China13: Robert Culp: 'Knowledge is Power': Defining Knowledge and Creating Organic Intellectuals, 1961- 1965Part 5: Socialist Internationalism at Home14: Mary Augusta Brazelton: Plagues from the Skies: Bacteriological Expertise in the 1952 Germ Warfare Allegations15: Nicolai Volland: Soviet Books in Socialist China: Epoch Press and the Making of the Maoist State, 1940-196016: Emily Wilcox: The Japanese and Korean Roots of Maoist Dance Education, 1951-52Coda17: Juliane Fürst and Jochen Hellbeck: Point Counterpoint: Temporal Interplay in the Soviet and Chinese Revolutions