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Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition Volume 24

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition Volume 24

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Hardcover

Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, Book 24

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520271890
ISBN13: 9780520271890
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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