Mao Zedong and Contemporary China

Exploring the World Where Truth Falls from the Heavens
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-1763-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself "Qin Shi Huang (First Emperor of Qin)plus Marx". It can be said that he is an entity that combines the power of the emperor and the authority of Marx into one person. This book analyzes the features of Mao Zedong’s thought and philosophy, his understanding of Marxism and class struggle, in particular, his peculiar attitude toward intellectuals, his actions leading to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which he initiated and involved the entire nation, as well as the analysis of the mechanisms that caused such catastrophes and tragedies.  Finally, through these analyses, this book attempts to evaluate Mao Zedong with diverse personalities and his behavior, positive and negative, whether in political, social, economic, or philosophical areas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nakagane, Katsuji

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mao’s philosophy and thought: tricks inherent in his philosophy “On Contradiction” and “On Practice”.- If Lu had lived even in post-revolution China?.- Class struggle theory and mass line: Mao’s basic understanding of Marxism.- Anti-rightist movement launched by Mao and its aftermath: Historical turning-point.- The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine.- Tragedy of Peng Dehuai who criticized Mao: Lushan Conference and its aftermath.- Mao’s political economics: anatomy of his “economics of contradiction”.- The Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong: mechanism of the turmoil

Über Autor(innen)

Katsuji Nakagane is a professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo. He also taught at Hitotsubashi University and Aoyama Gakuin University. He obtained his Ph.D. in international economics at The University of Tokyo in 1992. He was formerly president of the Japan Association of Asian Studies, president of the Japan Association of Comparative Economics Studies, president of the Japan Association of Chinese Economic and Management Studies, and editor-in-chief of the  . He has published several books on the Chinese economy, development economics and systemic transition in Japanese, such as   (University of Tokyo Press, 1992),   (Yuhikaku, 1999),   (Nagoya University Press 2010),   (Nagoya University Press,2012), and Mao Zedong  (Nagoya University Press, 2021). Most recently he edited the English language book  (Springer, 2023).