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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810078403321

Autore

Perry Elizabeth J

Titolo

Anyuan [[electronic resource] ] : mining China's revolutionary tradition / / Elizabeth J. Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-88205-0

9786613723369

0-520-95403-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 24

Disciplina

951.2/22

Soggetti

Communism - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Revolutions - Social aspects - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Political culture - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Social change - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Coal miners - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Labor movement - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Working class - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) - History - 20th century

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) Politics and government 20th century

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) Social conditions 20th century

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rehearsing Revolution -- Teaching Revolution : The Strike of 1922 -- "China's Little Moscow" -- From Mobilization to Militarization -- Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition -- Mao's Final Crusade : The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- "Reforming" the Revolutionary Tradition -- Glossary.



Sommario/riassunto

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage," on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese." Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as "China's Little Moscow," Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.