Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition (Asia: Local

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Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)

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 Communistsâ€™ creative development and deployment of cultural resources â€“ 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 Peopleâ€™s Republic of China. Once known as "Chinaâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Elizabeth Perry
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520954038
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	414
PublicationDate	2012-10-01
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2012-10-01
Studio	University of California Press

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)

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