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Collecting the Revolution: British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution Material Culture

Collecting the Revolution: British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution Material Culture

Williams, Emily R.

Hardcover

AnthropologyChinese HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1538150670
ISBN13: 9781538150672
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 8 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the late 1960s, student protests broke out throughout much of the world, and while Britain's anti-Vietnam protestors and China's Red Guards were clearly radically different, these movements at times shared inspirations, aspirations, and aesthetics. Within Western popular media, Mao's China was portrayed as a danger to world peace, but at the same time, for some on the counter-cultural left, the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) contained ideas worthy of exploration. Moreover, because of Britain's continued colonial possession of Hong Kong, Britain had a specific interest in ongoing events in China, and information was highly sought after. Thus, the objects that China exported--propaganda posters, paintings, Mao badges, periodicals, ceramics, etc.--became a crucial avenue through which China was known at this time, and interest in them crossed the political divide.

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