Afterlives of Chinese communism : political concepts from Mao To Xi / edited by Christian P Sorace, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sorace, Christian P., 1981- editor.

Franceschini, Ivan, editor.

Loubere, Nicholas, editor.

Australian National University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--China.

Post-communism.

China--Politics and government--1949-1976.

China.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Acton Australian Capital Territory, Australia : ANU Press : Verso, [2019]

Summary:

Afterlives of Chinese Communism includes essays from over 50 world-renowned scholars in the China field, from different disciplines, and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the intellectual legacies of the Mao era shape Chinese politics today. The volume addresses the question: What lessons does the Chinese Revolution have for leftist thinking in the present? As a volume, the essays speak to each other by answering this question. Across the various approaches, there is a sensitivity to the potentials, enthusiasms, and resistances to domination that Maoist concepts once generated. Each essay provides an introduction to a concept or keyword in Chinese politics, its origins in the Mao era, uses in the present, and potential futures. Participating in an emerging conversation on the futures of communism, the edited volume is designed as an archive of the political vocabulary of Maoism, and a legend to the lost political cartographies of the past and any potential utopian futures.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1. Aesthetics

2. Blood Lineage

3. Class Feeling

4. Class Struggle

5. Collectivism

6. Contradiction

7. Culture

8. Cultural Revolution

9. Datong and Xiaokang

10. Dialectical Materialism

11. Dignity of Labour

12. Formalism

13. Friend and Enemy

14. Global Maoism

15. Immortality

16. Justice

17. Labour

18. Large and Communitarian

19. Line Struggle

20. Mass Line

21. Mass Supervision

22. Mobilisation

23. Museum

24. Nationality

25. New Democracy

26. Paper Tiger

27. Peasant

28. People's War

29. Permanent Revolution

30. Poetry

31. Practice

32. Primitive Accumulation

33. Rectification

34. Red and Expert

35. Removing Mountains and Draining Seas

36. Revolution

37. Self-reliance

38. Semifeudalism, Semicolonialism

39. Sending Films to the Countryside

40. Serve the People

41. Socialist Law

42. Speaking Bitterness

43. Sugarcoated Bullets

44. Superstition

45. Surpass

46. Third World

47. Thought Reform

48. Trade Union

49. United Front

50. Utopia

51. Women's Liberation

52. Work Team

53. Work Unit

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Contributors

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788734783

1788734785

9781760462499

1760462497

9781788734790

1788734793

OCLC:

1107512484

Publisher Number:

10.22459/ACC.2019

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access