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• Preface Abbreviations and measures
• 1. A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century
• 2. Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity
• 3. Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and land reform
• 4. getting organized: struggling with collectivism
• 5. Village as enterprise: corporate community management in the Deng Era
• 6. A topography of the present: shaping a village landscape in the late twentieth century Appendix: Qiaolou Village Compact Notes Character list Index.
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Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930's and 1940's, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism.Genealogies of power suggest that agnatic solidarity among selective patrilineal kin, as well as other modes of association based on marriage, ritual kinship, and personal friendship, were critical factors in the local political arena. The particularly close relationships that developed among a core group of local cadres and their kin during the Maoist years shaped the ways in which party-state policies were interpreted, implemented, and experienced by fellow villagers. These ties were also critical in orchestrating village industrialization and corporate community building in the 1980's and 1990's.The processes of community and elite formation entailed the mobilization of some alliances of interest, emotion, and exchange while at the same time suppressing others. The author examines strategies and patterns of interfamily cooperation and conflict during the tumultuous decades-the 1920's-1940's- of civil unrest, inflation, and burgeoning taxation. He shows how historical relationships between local families and officials were instrumental in shaping the reorganization of rural life under Communism. The social organization of polity and economy in Qiaolou village during the reform era bore many hallmarks of both corporate and corporatist practices. Loosened state controls enabled village cadres to create new roles for themselves as economic patrons, drawing on economic, social, political, and symbolic resources to cultivate solidarity and labor discipline within the village corporation they managed.
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• Preface Abbreviations and measures
• 1. A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century
• 2. Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity
• 3. Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and land reform
• 4. getting organized: struggling with collectivism
• 5. Village as enterprise: corporate community management in the Deng Era
• 6. A topography of the present: shaping a village landscape in the late twentieth century Appendix: Qiaolou Village Compact Notes Character list Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930's and 1940's, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism.Genealogies of power suggest that agnatic solidarity among selective patrilineal kin, as well as other modes of association based on marriage, ritual kinship, and personal friendship, were critical factors in the local political arena. The particularly close relationships that developed among a core group of local cadres and their kin during the Maoist years shaped the ways in which party-state policies were interpreted, implemented, and experienced by fellow villagers. These ties were also critical in orchestrating village industrialization and corporate community building in the 1980's and 1990's.The processes of community and elite formation entailed the mobilization of some alliances of interest, emotion, and exchange while at the same time suppressing others. The author examines strategies and patterns of interfamily cooperation and conflict during the tumultuous decades-the 1920's-1940's- of civil unrest, inflation, and burgeoning taxation. He shows how historical relationships between local families and officials were instrumental in shaping the reorganization of rural life under Communism. The social organization of polity and economy in Qiaolou village during the reform era bore many hallmarks of both corporate and corporatist practices. Loosened state controls enabled village cadres to create new roles for themselves as economic patrons, drawing on economic, social, political, and symbolic resources to cultivate solidarity and labor discipline within the village corporation they managed.
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• A Marxian message to the pre-industrialized societies
• social and economic conditions in China
• road to Marxism
• Chinese Marxism through the Cold War prism
• the first fruits 1 - the removal of delusive prejudices
• the first fruits 2 - towards a Marxian cultural theory
• Mao Zedong's thought
• Chinese Marxism in action -two case studies
• the thermidorean reaction - a crisis of legitimacy.
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With underlying fidelity to primary sources, Adrian Chan has produced an original account of the evolution of Marxism in China. This controversial and extraordinary analysis confronts the traditional scholarship of the West, which is still overshadowed by the Cold War, and of China, which is burdened by party orthodox. It posits a tension between the proponents of the Marxism and the Scientific Marxist-Leninist versions of Communism, and it challenges the received view that Chinese Communism was a pale Soviet model contaminated by traditional Chinese ideas.
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• Preface Ch. 2From the Whatever to the Dialectical Materialist Approach Ch. 3Competing Models of the Socialist Economy Ch. 4The Reassessment of the Socialist Economic System Ch. 5The Noncompeting Nature of the Socialist Political System Ch. 6The Reassessment of the Socialist Political System Ch. 7The Reconceptualization of Socialism Ch. 8The Response to the "Liberal" Reassessment of Socialism Ch. 9The Chinese and Soviet Reassessments of Socialism: A Comparison Ch. 10The Post-Mao Reassessment of Socialism and the Chinese Socialist Experience Notes References Index.
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Since the late 1970s, a debate has been unfolding in China concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a programme for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market-based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound re-examination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? This book presents a systematic study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, this book takes the argument of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. It identifies the major factors in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. The book concludes with a comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those o.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• CHAPTER ONE. The Affirmation, Development, and Negation of Marxism
• CHAPTER TWO. From the Whatever to the Dialectical Materialist Approach
• CHAPTER THREE. Competing Models of the Socialist Economy
• CHAPTER FOUR. The Reassessment of the Socialist Economic System
• CHAPTER FIVE. The Noncompeting Nature of the Socialist Political System
• CHAPTER SIX. The Reassessment of the Socialist Political System
• CHAPTER SEVEN. The Reconceptualization of Socialism
• CHAPTER EIGHT. The Response to the ''Liberal'' Reassessment of Socialism
• CHAPTER NINE. The Chinese and Soviet Reassessments of Socialism: A Comparison
• CHAPTER TEN. The Post-Mao Reassessment of Socialism and the Chinese Socialist Experience
• Notes
• References
• Index

A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries

This text chronicles Deng Xiaoping's institution of far-reaching and practical economic reforms that seem at odds with Communist theory and its emphasis on ideology. In fact, while Deng often turned to Mao for ideological justification of his reforms, those very reforms seemed to wear away to official ideology. Ultimately, even though the post-Mao government has fostered economic growth, improved standards of living and intellectual pluralism, these changes have resulted in a decline on the perceived legitimacy of the regime.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Part 2 Part I: The Origins
• Chapter 3 Socialism and Capitalism in Chinese Socialist Thinking: The Origins
• Chapter 4 National Development and Social Revolution in Early Chinese Marxist Thought
• Part 5 Part II: Making Marxism Chinese: Mao Zedong
• Chapter 6 Mao Zedong and "Chinese Marxism"
• Chapter 7 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Mao Zedong's Marxism
• Chapter 8 The Predicament of Marxist Revolutionary Consciousness: Mao Zedong, Antonio Gramsci, and the Reformulation of Marxist Revolutionary Theory
• Part 9 Part III: The Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective
• Chapter 10 Revolutionary Hegemony and the Language of Revolution: Chinese Socialism between the Present and the Future
• Chapter 11 The Two Cultural Revolutions: The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the Perspective of Global Capitalism
• Chapter 12 Revolutions in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective
• Part 13 Part IV: After the Revolution
• Chapter 14 Post-Socialism? Reflections on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
• Chapter 15 Looking Backward in the Age of Global Capital: Thoughts on History in Third World Cultural Criticism
• Chapter 16 Markets, Culture, Power: The Making of a 'Second Cultural Revolution' in China.
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Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the CCP. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past, but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history and the ongoing relevance of Marxism in grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity.
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• Socialism and capitalism in Chinese socialist thinking : the origins
• National development and social revolution in early Chinese Marxist thought
• Mao Zedong and "Chinese Marxism"
• Modernism and antimodernism in Mao Zedong's Marxism
• The predicament of Marxist revolutionary consciousness : Mao Zedong, Antonio Gramsci, and the reformulation of Marxist revolutionary theory
• Revolutionary hegemony and the language of revolution : Chinese socialism between present and the future
• The two cultural revolutions : the Chinese cultural revolution in the perspective of global capitalism
• Revolutions in history and memory : the politics of cultural revolution in historical perspective
• Postsocialism? : reflections on "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
• Looking backward in the age of global capital : thoughts on history in Third World cultural criticism
• Markets, culture, power : the making of a "second cultural revolution" in China.

Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the socialist response was unable to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.