Redefining Propaganda in Modern China: The Mao Era and Its Legacies

ISBN-13: 9780367275273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 322 str.

James Farley; Matthew D. Johnson

Opis

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume capture the sweep of propaganda and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policymakers, bureaucratic functionaries, and artists.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: Historical Perspectives;  1. Propaganda: A Historical Perspective;  2. China’s Directed Public Sphere: Historical Perspectives on Mao’s Propaganda State;  Part II: Icons and Imagery;  3. Liu Hulan – ‘A Great Life, a Glorious Death’: Martyrdom Across the Media;  4. Creating the Subtle Image of the ‘Compatriot’ 同胞 – The People of Taiwan and Hong Kong in Chinese Propaganda Posters of the Mao Era (1949-1976);  5. Anatomy of an Emulation Campaign: "Study from Comrade Wang Guofu";  Part III: Reception and Affect;  6. Developing Patriotic Anti-Americanism: Chinese Propaganda and the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign, 1949-53;  7. One More Time, with Feeling: Revolutionary Repetition and the Cultural Revolution Red Guard Rally Documentaries, 1966-67;  Part IV: Transitions;  8. Breaking with the Past: Party Propaganda and State Crimes;  9. From Text(s) to Image(s): Maoist-Era Texts and their Influences on Six Oil Paintings (1957-79);  Part V: Legacies;  10. Propaganda and Security from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping: Struggling to Defend China’s Socialist System;  11. Whose China Dream is it Anyway: Temporalities of ‘Ethnicity’ in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang;  12. China as ‘Third Pole’ Culture: Between Theorizing and Thought Work;  Selected Bibliography