Guo Wu

Chinese Revolution in Practice

From Movement to the State

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032576206
• ISBN-10: 1032576200
• Artikelnr.: 69113974

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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