Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture Paperback / softback
by Alessandro Russo
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:18/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781478009528
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:18/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478009528