Shades Of Mao

Author : Geremie Barme
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315285754
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader written by Geremie Barme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. ... The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction". -- Reference & Research Book News "(A) highly entertaining and informative collection of translations of official, admiring, tacky, but sometimes also highly critical writings, and illustrations of objects, all featuring Mao. ... A must-have book for everybody interested in contemporary China, Mao, and his legacy now and in the future". -- China Information

Author : Geremie Barmé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Mao written by Geremie Barmé and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Leese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498118
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao Cult written by Daniel Leese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nationalists' elevation of Chiang Kai-shek. However, they did not anticipate that Mao would use this symbolic power to mobilize Chinese youth to rebel against party bureaucracy itself. The result was anarchy and when the army was called in it relied on mandatory rituals of worship such as daily reading of the Little Red Book to restore order. Such fascinating detail sheds light not only on the personality cult of Mao, but also on hero-worship in other traditions.

Author : Jiang Hong Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592700790
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao and Me written by Jiang Hong Chen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chens picture book memoir of growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Author : William A. Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134203675
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia written by William A. Callahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the objective of analyzing the relation between the state’s cultural governance and resistance to it. The themes covered include: governmentality and cultural production popular culture and resistance East/West relations gender, identity and democracy civil society, social movements and democracy national and transnational identity production. Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia addresses the dynamics between Asian studies and cultural studies, and the overlap between comparative politics and international relations, and as such will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, comparative politics, sociology and anthropology alike.

Author : Ye Sang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938860
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Candid written by Ye Sang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under—and often despite—the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms—reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.

Author : Geremie R. Barmé
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231502450
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Red written by Geremie R. Barmé and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, Geremie R. Barmé notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what happens when global culture and Chinese capitalist-socialism meet in the marketplace? In the Redinvestigates what goes on behind the rhetoric of the official Chinese government and the dissident community and provides a unique perspective on mainstream Western perceptions of cultural developments, artistic freedom, and popular lifestyles in China today. Illustrated with fascinating cartoons and photographs and rich with facts, anecdotes, and events, In the Red exposes the complex relationship between "official" culture (produced, supported, or sanctioned by the government) and "nonofficial" or countercultures (especially among urban youths and dissidents). Two key and contrasting events loom large in this narrative: the 1989 protests that ended with the June 4 massacre and a nationwide purge, and Deng Xiaoping's 1992 "tour of the south," in which he emphasized the need for radical economic reform. Although a level of political tolerance has evolved since the 1970s, Barmé sheds light on the significance of the intermittent denunciations of artists, ideas, and works.

Author : Alexander C. Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107057221
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Little Red Book written by Alexander C. Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

Author : Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706935
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Innocents in Red China written by Pierre Elliot Trudeau and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert, a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montréal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when Two Innocents in Red China, Trudeau and Hébert’s sardonic look at a third world country’s first steps into the rest world, was released in English, Trudeau had become prime minister of Canada. “It seemed to us imperative that the citizens of our democracy should know more about China,” Trudeau wrote in the foreword. Four decades later, China’s emergence as an economic and military heavyweight beckoned Trudeau’s journalist son Alexandre to retrace his father’s footsteps and add additional material to the book. The result is a thought-provoking new perspective on the Canadian classic that helped open China to the world.

Author : Charlotte Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619373X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Mao and McCarthy written by Charlotte Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York. Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. On both coasts, Chinese Americans sought to gain political power and defend their civil rights, yet only the San Franciscans succeeded. Forging multiracial coalitions and encouraging voting and moderate activism, they avoided the deep divisions and factionalism that consumed their counterparts in New York. Drawing on extensive research in both Chinese- and English-language sources, Charlotte Brooks uncovers the complex, diverse, and surprisingly vibrant politics of an ethnic group trying to find its voice and flex its political muscle in Cold War America.