Red Shadows: Volume 12
Memories and Legacies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Will be published approx. on 23. February 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-316-60475-5 (ISBN)
Description
China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to assess its impact fifty years on? In this volume, leading social and political scientists, historians and anthropologists examine the long-lasting consequences of the political, social, economic and cultural upheaval unleashed by Mao Zedong. Contributions from authors working within and outside the People's Republic of China consider the impact of this tumultuous mass movement from perspectives as diverse as market-based economic reform, clothing and fashion, the grassroots movements of late 1960s across the globe and the so-called 'lost generation' of sent-down youth. We find that collective and personal memories of the Cultural Revolution and its enduring institutional and social legacies continue to exert a profound effect on China and the Chinese people today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-60475-5 (9781316604755)
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Content
Preface. The once and future tragedy of the Cultural Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar; Introduction. The Cultural Revolution: memories and legacies fifty years on Patricia Thornton and Chris Berry; 1. Bending the arc of Chinese history: the Cultural Revolution's paradoxical legacy Andrew Walder; 2. The Cultural Revolution and its legacies in international perspective Julia Lovell; 3. Mummify the working class: the Cultural Revolution and the fates of the political parties Alessandro Russo; 4. Debates on constitutionalism and the legacies of the Cultural Revolution Wu Changchang; 5. The Cultural Revolution as a crisis of representation Patricia Thornton; 6. Cultural Revolution as method Michael Dutton; 7. Whodunnit? Memory and politics before the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Cui Jinke; 8. Restricted, distorted but alive: the memory of the 'lost generation' of Chinese educated youth Michel Bonnin; 9. The collar revolution: everyday clothing in Guangdong as resistance in the Cultural Revolution Sun Peidong; 10. The silent revolution: decollectivization from below during the Cultural Revolution Frank Dikoetter.