03017nam 2200565 450 991079850400332120210311111955.01-350-21909-61-78360-761-010.5040/9781350219090(CKB)3710000000831203(EBL)4652428(OCoLC)958084156(MiAaPQ)EBC4652428(OCoLC)1241539629(CaBNVSL)9781350219090(EXLCZ)99371000000083120320210311h20212016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierChina and the New Maoists /Kerry Brown and Simone Van NieuwenhuizenLondon, England :Zed Books,2016.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (201 p.)Asian argumentsDescription based upon print version of record.1-78360-760-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-182) and index.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.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 descriptionAsian arguments.CommunismChinaHistory20th centuryPolitics & governmentbicsscChinaPolitics and government1949-CommunismHistoryPolitics & government320.53/230951Brown Kerry1967-1497895Nieuwenhuizen Simone vanYDXCPCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910798504003321China and the New Maoists3757005UNINA