Chinese Revolution in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032576206 / Twarda / 2023 / 170 str.

USA) Wu Guo (Allegheny University

Opis

This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China’s transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Yun Daiying's Social Engagement and Political Transformation, 1917–1921  2. Political Education in Land Reform and Military Training Under the CCP  3. Historiography, Memory, and Myth in Maoist China  4. The Social Construction and Deconstruction of Evil Landlords in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Art, and Collective Memory  5. Extrajudicial Incarceration during the Cultural Revolution  6. Ritual, Reading, and Resistance in the Prison and Cowshed during the Cultural Revolution. Conclusion

O autorze

Guo Wu is an associate professor of history at Allegheny College, USA. His main research interests include modern Chinese nationalism, southern ethnic minority studies, and the Chinese communist revolution. His most influential books include Zheng Guanying: Merchant Reformer of Late Qing China and His Influence on Economics, Politics, and Society (2010).