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China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
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Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.
Contributions by: Anne-Marie Brady, Woei Lien Chong, Lowell Dittmer, Monika Gaenssbauer, Nick Knight, Stefan R. Landsberger, Nora Sausmikat, Barend J. ter Haar, Natascha Vittinghoff, and Lan Yang.
Table of Contents
Part I: Master Narratives
Chapter 1: Rethinking China's Cultural Revolution amid Reform
Chapter 2: China's Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm
Chapter 3: From Harmony to Struggle, from Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong's Thought
Chapter 4: Red and Expert: China's "Foreign Friends" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966–1969
Chapter 5: The Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and Beyond
Chapter 6: The Ideal Socialist Hero: Literary Conventions in Cultural Revolution Novels
Part II: Post-Mao Counternarratives
Chapter 7: Philosophy in an Age of Crisis. Three Thinkers in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Li Zehou, Liu Xiaobo, and Liu Xiaofeng
Chapter 8: Resisting Current Stereotypes: Private Narrative Strategies in the Autobiographies of Former Rusticated Women
Chapter 9: China's Generation X: Rusticated Red Guards in Controversial Contemporary Plays
Chapter 10: The Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai's Fiction
Product details
| Published | 31 Jul 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9780742518742 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 227 x 149 mm |
| Series | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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