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Material Contradictions in Mao's China

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvJennifer Altehenger,Denise Y. Ho

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An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commoditiesThe growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period (1949–1976)—rightly framed as a time of scarcity—initially appears to have had little material culture to speak of. Yet people attributed great meaning to materials and objects often precisely because they were rare and difficult to obtain. This first volume devoted to the material history of the period explores the paradox of material culture under Chinese Communist Party rule and illustrates how central materiality was to individual and collective desire, social and economic construction of the country, and projections of an imminent socialist utopia within reach of every man and woman, if only they worked hard enough.Bringing together scholars of Chinese art, cinema, culture, performance, and more, this volume shares groundbreaking research on the objects and practices of everyday life in Mao’s China, from bamboo and bricks to dance and film. With engaging narratives and probing analysis, the contributors make a place for China’s experience in the history of global material culture and the study of socialist modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-08
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt396 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaterial Contradictions in Mao's China
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295750859

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Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. She is author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Denise Y. Ho is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger2. The Brick / Cole Roskam3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. MeyskensAfterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan BachChinese Character GlossarySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life."

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