UID:
almafu_9959674039402883
Format:
1 online resource (359 p.)
ISBN:
9781478012184
Content:
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; 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Afterlives of an “Upright Official” --
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2. Political and Historical Dilemmas --
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3. An Unresolved Controversy --
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4. A Probable Defeat and Revisionism --
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5. Shrinking the Cultural Superego --
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6. Testing the Organization --
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7. A Subjective Split in the Working Class --
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8. Facing a Self-Defeat --
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9. Intellectual Conditions for a Political Assessment --
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10. Foundations of Deng Xiaoping’s Strategy --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012184
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012184
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012184
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012184
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012184
