Perry Anyuan

Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-95403-8
Verlag: Kensington Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 412 Seiten

Reihe: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "e,cultural positioning"e, and "e,cultural patronage,"e, on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "e,Chinese."e, Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "e,political correctness"e, in the People's Republic of China. Once known as "e,China's Little Moscow,"e, Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perry, Elizabeth J.