LEADER 04306nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910456672503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-1661-1 010 $a0-8014-6223-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462238 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035352 035 $a(OCoLC)732957133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360930 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568487 035 $a(PQKB)10837522 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138163 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28816 035 $a(DE-B1597)489608 035 $a(OCoLC)1024018329 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462238 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468042 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035352 100 $a20100527d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMao's new world$b[electronic resource] $epolitical culture in the early People's Republic /$fChang-tai Hung 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-5017-1353-1 311 $a0-8014-4934-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-340) and index. 327 $aTiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes. 330 $aIn this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet influence, but the nationalistic Chinese Communists sought an independent road of nation building; for example, they decided that the reconstructed Tiananmen Square should surpass Red Square in size and significance, against the advice of Soviet experts sent from Moscow.Combining historical, cultural, and anthropological inquiries, Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949-1959). Using archival sources only recently made available, previously untapped government documents, visual materials, memoirs, and interviews with surviving participants in the Party's plans, Hung argues that the exploitation of new cultural forms for political ends was one of the most significant achievements of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The book features sixty-six images of architecture, monuments, and artwork to document how the CCP invented the heroic tales of the Communist Revolution. 606 $aPolitical culture$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCommunism and culture$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArts$xPolitical aspects$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSymbolism in politics$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1949-1976 607 $aChina$xCultural policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aCommunism and culture$xHistory 615 0$aArts$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSymbolism in politics$xHistory 676 $a306.20951/09045 700 $aHung$b Chang-tai$f1949-$01039410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456672503321 996 $aMao's new world$92461617 997 $aUNINA