Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates / Hung-yok Ip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ip, Hung-yok, 1961-

Series:

Chinese worlds.

Chinese worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--China--Political activity--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

China--Politics and government--1912-1949.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Other Title:

Leaders, heroes and sophisticates

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction

Perspectives

Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective

Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey

Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai

Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong

Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective

Narrating politicized subjectivity

The nobility of ambivalence and devotion

Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience

Clinging to refinement in the revolution

Part V. Epilogue

Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections

Conclusion.

Notes:

"First published 2005 by Routledge ... London ... "

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-291) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-26519-0

1-134-26520-4

1-280-22489-4

9786610224890

0-203-00993-2

9780203009932

OCLC:

437063018