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

• Autore: Perry Elizabeth J
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.2/22
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anyuan
• ISBN: 1-280-88205-0; 9786613723369; 0-520-95403-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452865503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 24.