Red Shadows: Volume 12

Memories and Legacies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Herausgeber: Thornton, Patricia M; Berry, Chris; Sun, Peidong

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to assess its impact fifty years on? Leading academics examine the long-lasting consequences of the political, social, economic and cultural upheaval unleashed by Mao Zedong.

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Produktdetails

• The China Quarterly Special Issues
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781316604755
• ISBN-10: 1316604756
• Artikelnr.: 48031311

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. The once and future tragedy of the Cultural Revolution Roderick
MacFarquhar; Introduction. The Cultural Revolution: memories and legacies
fifty years on Patricia Thornton and Chris Berry; 1. Bending the arc of
Chinese history: the Cultural Revolution's paradoxical legacy Andrew
Walder; 2. The Cultural Revolution and its legacies in international
perspective Julia Lovell; 3. Mummify the working class: the Cultural
Revolution and the fates of the political parties Alessandro Russo; 4.
Debates on constitutionalism and the legacies of the Cultural Revolution Wu
Changchang; 5. The Cultural Revolution as a crisis of representation
Patricia Thornton; 6. Cultural Revolution as method Michael Dutton; 7.
Whodunnit? Memory and politics before the 50th anniversary of the Cultural
Revolution Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Cui Jinke; 8. Restricted,
distorted but alive: the memory of the 'lost generation' of Chinese
educated youth Michel Bonnin; 9. The collar revolution: everyday clothing
in Guangdong as resistance in the Cultural Revolution Sun Peidong; 10. The
silent revolution: decollectivization from below during the Cultural
Revolution Frank Dikötter.