Hong wei bing., Protest movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century., Student movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century., Political violence -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- 20th century., and History.
Abstract
"The Cultural Revolution began as a "revolution from above," and Mao had only a tenuous relationship with the Red Guard students and workers who responded to his call. Yet it was these young rebels at the grassroots who advanced the Cultural Revolution's more radical possibilities, Yiching Wu argues, and who not only acted for themselves but also transgressed Maoism by critically reflecting on broader issues concerning Chinese socialism. As China's state machinery broke down and the institutional foundations of the PRC were threatened, Mao resolved to suppress the crisis. Leaving out in the cold the very activists who had taken its transformative promise seriously, the Cultural Revolution devoured its children and exhausted its political energy. The mass demobilizations of 1968-69, Wu shows, were the starting point of a series of crisis-coping maneuvers to contain and neutralize dissent, producing immense changes in Chinese society a decade later." -- Publisher's description.
Rofel, Lisa, 1953-, Huang, Xin., and Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
Subjects
Women -- China -- Hangzhou -- Case studies., Women silk industry workers -- China -- Hangzhou -- Case studies., Women and socialism -- China -- Hangzhou -- Case studies., and Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Communist Information Bureau -- History., Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History., Communism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century., and Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Liberalism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Conservatism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century., and History.
Abstract
"This book is the first attempt to present an integrated overview of the development of liberal, conservative, and socialist thought in the Republican era, which formed the intellectual foundations of Chinese modernity. The book explores ideas in relation to their cultural and political backgrounds. The author argues that the key to understanding the Chinese quest for modernity lies in an appreciation of the interrelatedness and interplay of different schools of thought. There is no one single vision of Chinese modernity. Instead, different visions contest, interact, and influence one another"--Provided by publisher.
Women -- China -- Hangzhou Shi -- Case studies., Women silk industry workers -- China -- Hangzhou Shi -- Case studies., Women and socialism -- China -- Hangzhou Shi -- Case studies., Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- 20th century., Case studies., and History.
Abstract
"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives."--Book cover.
Villages -- China -- Case studies., Villages -- China -- History -- 20th century., Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century., Socialism -- China -- 20th century., Case studies., and History.
Abstract
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 1930s and 1940s, 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.