Anyuan : Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Perry
Part of the Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes series
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How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution?
Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype?
An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards.
Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage", on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese".
Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "political correctness" in the People's Republic of China.
Once known as "China's Little Moscow", "Anyuan" came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition.
Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.
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- Pages:412 pages, 12 b-w photographs, 2 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780520271906
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:412 pages, 12 b-w photographs, 2 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520271906