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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798504003321

Autore

Brown Kerry <1967->

Titolo

China and the New Maoists / / Kerry Brown and Simone Van Nieuwenhuizen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2016

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-21909-6

1-78360-761-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Asian arguments

Disciplina

320.53/230951

Soggetti

Communism - China - History - 20th century

Politics & government

China Politics and government 1949-

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 (pages 172-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tale of the victim, Zhang Zhixin -- The Chairman's life after death -- Defender of the faith : Deng Liqun and leftism -- Maoism in motion : the red campaign of Bo Xilai in Chongqing -- Blurred lines : Mao, the CPC and Chinese society today -- Mad about Mao -- Conclusion : Mao's second coming.

Sommario/riassunto

An absorbing account of the continued influence of Chairman Mao on contemporary China, and of efforts by the New Maoists to claim his legacy.

"Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly ambivalent towards him. And while he continues to be a highly visible and contentious presence in Chinese public life, Mao's enduring influence has been little understood in the West. In China and the New Maoists, Kerry Brown and Simone van Nieuwenhuizen look at the increasingly vocal elements who claim to be the true ideological heirs to Mao, ranging from academics to cyberactivists, as well as at the state's efforts to draw on Mao's image as a source of legitimacy. This is a



fascinating portrait of a country undergoing dramatic upheavals while still struggling to come to terms with its past." -- Publisher's description

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781538203321

Autore

Pickowicz Paul

Titolo

China on film [[electronic resource] ] : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / / Paul G. Pickowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-4422-1180-6

9786613362261

1-283-36226-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

791.43095109/04

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - China - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Political aspects - China - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century

China In motion pictures

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

Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era  Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of



Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking political stands and weighing in-for better or worse-on the most explosive social, cultural, and economic issues of the day. Exploring the often gut-wrenching controversies generated by their w