Anyuan : mining China's revolutionary tradition / Elizabeth J. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 24.

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Communism.

Revolutions--Social aspects--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Revolutions.

Political culture--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Political culture.

Social change--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Social change.

Coal miners--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Coal miners.

Labor movement--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Working class--China--Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)--History--20th century.

Working class.

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West)--Politics and government--20th century.

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West).

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West)--Social conditions--20th century.

Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Rehearsing Revolution

Teaching Revolution : The Strike of 1922

"China's Little Moscow"

From Mobilization to Militarization

Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition

Mao's Final Crusade : The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

"Reforming" the Revolutionary Tradition

Glossary.

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613723369

9781280882050

1280882050

9780520954038

0520954033

OCLC:

799766255