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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785711903321

Autore

Smith Aminda M. <1973->

Titolo

Thought reform and China's dangerous classes [[electronic resource] ] : reeducation, resistance, and the people / / Aminda M. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2013

ISBN

1-4422-1839-8

1-283-85555-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

Disciplina

306.0951

Soggetti

Political culture - China - History - 20th century

Education and state - China - History - 20th century

Education - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century

Communism - China - History - 20th century

China Social conditions 1949-1976

China Politics and government 1949-1976

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Finding a Place for the Lumpenproletariat; Chapter Two: The People versus Their Enemies; Chapter Three: The Curriculum of Consciousness Raising; Chapter Four: The Laboring Masses; Chapter Five: The People Stand Up; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"-the prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects t