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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956893103321

Titolo

Radicalism, revolution, and reform in modern China : essays in honor of Maurice Meisner / / edited by Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

979-82-16-22923-0

1-283-14574-X

9786613145741

0-7391-6574-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

AsiaWorld

Altri autori (Persone)

LynchCatherine <1949->

MarksRobert <1949->

PickowiczPaul

Disciplina

951.05

Soggetti

China History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical Context; 1 Individualism and Nationalism in the Thought of Chen Duxiu, 1904-1918; 2 Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming; 3 Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950s; 4 Mao and Tibet; 5 Chinese Communists and the Environment; 6 Post-Socialist Capitalism in Rural China; 7 Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural China; 8 The "Rise of China"?; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, this volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through contested visions of the future. It contributes new insights into Mao Zedong, including his surprising relations with the Dalai Lama, and into Communist legacies for the environment, the rural economy, and independent filmmaking



as protest, at the same time posing the question of whether the radical past of envisioning new paths to a modern future has yet a role to play.