Yang Lijun

Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China¿s Cultural Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that had a major impact on the political, economic, and social order of the time.

Produktdetails

• IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China's Public Policy
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-97-0905-2
• 2024
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9789819709052
• ISBN-10: 9819709059
• Artikelnr.: 69788868

Autorenporträt

Yang Lijun is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Public Policy at South China University of Technology. She studies social changes and movements in contemporary China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Central Themes and a Review of the Literature.- 2. Institutional Approaches to the Cultural Revolution.- 3. State Building and the Reorganization of Institutional Spatial Configurations before the Cultural Revolution.- 4. The System of Citizenship Distribution Before the Cultural Revolution.- 5. The Rise and Fall of the "Old Red Guards".- 6. The Rise and Fall of the Tsinghua University Jinggangshan Corps.- 7. The Reconstruction of the Regime and the Shanghai Model.- 8. Competing Strategies for Citizenship - The Cultural Revolution in Small Cities.- 9. Radicalization of Factional Competition and Collective Violence.- 10. Collective Violence and Social Order.- 11. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution and the Transformation of Social Movements.