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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822049003321

Autore

Ip Hung-yok <1961, >

Titolo

Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates / / Hung-yok Ip

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-26519-0

1-134-26520-4

1-280-22489-4

9786610224890

0-203-00993-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Chinese worlds

Disciplina

951.04/086/31

Soggetti

Intellectuals - China - Political activity - History - 20th century

China Politics and government 1912-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Routledge.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Introduction -- Perspectives -- Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective -- Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey -- Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai -- Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong -- Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective -- Narrating politicized subjectivity -- The nobility of ambivalence and devotion -- Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience -- Clinging to refinement in the revolution -- Part V. Epilogue -- Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.