On Culture And Cultural Revolution

Author : Alessandro Russo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012188
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture written by Alessandro Russo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical “prologue” of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Barbara Mittler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175186
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Continuous Revolution written by Barbara Mittler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art—music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature—from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040414
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Revolution written by Roderick MACFARQUHAR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434463524
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Culture and Cultural Revolution written by V. I. Lenin and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1632864231
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution written by Frank Dikötter and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Culture and Cultural Revolution written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Joseph
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171148
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution written by William A. Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521875153
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Cultural Revolution written by Paul Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the Cultural Revolution through the conflict between innovation and a top-down enforcement of modernity.

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035432
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution written by Xing Lu and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought death to thousands and persecution to millions. Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical features and explores the persuasive effects of political language and symbolic practices during the period. She examines how leaders of the Communist Party enacted a rhetoric in political contexts to legitimize power and violence and to dehumanize a group of people identified as class enemies.

Author : Joseph Esherick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History written by Joseph Esherick and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description