Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

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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 ...
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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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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520271906
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/2012
  • Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Series
  • Pages: 412
  • Sales rank: 780,237
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

Elizabeth Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is the author of many books, most recently: Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China and Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State.
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Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Maps xvi

Introduction 1

1 Rehearsing Revolution 15

2 Teaching Revolution: The Strike of 1922 46

3 China's Little Moscow 78

4 From Mobilization to Militarization 124

5 Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition 153

6 Mao's Final Crusade: Purifying the Revolutionary Tradition 205

7 Reforming the Revolutionary Tradition 247

Conclusion 283

Notes 297

Glossary 357

Bibliography of English-Language Sources 361

Index 375

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