Revolutionary transformations : the People's Republic of China in the 1950s / edited by Anja Blanke, Zeppelin Universität, Julia C. Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Klaus Mühlhahn, Zeppelin Universität.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanke, Anja, editor.

Strauss, Julia C., editor.

Mühlhahn, Klaus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--1949-1976.

China.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Using first-hand material from Chinese archives that are no longer open to researchers, and bringing together a leading team of international scholars, this volume is a major contribution to the study of the People's Republic of China. Calling into question existing narratives on the foundational decade of the PRC, these essays present a nuanced consideration of China in the 1950s by integrating two periods that are often considered separately: the relatively 'happy' years 1949-1956 with the relatively 'unhappy' years from 1957 onwards. Exploring the challenges faced in constructing socialism, the transnational context, and early modes of PRC governance, the contributors highlight the ways in which China was shaped by diversity on all levels and scales in how socialism was enacted and experienced. These essays clearly demonstrate how the unevenness of Party control created discrepancies and variations between different regions and between the center and the locale.

Contents:

International relations and China's position in the socialist camp / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Sino-Soviet anxiety : science and Chinese conditions in the PRC coal industry (1949-1965) / Anna Belogurova

Producing socialist bodies : transnational sports networks and athletes in 1950s China / Amanda Shuman

Asia's fourth Rome : cultural industries and cultural diplomacy in the international legitimization of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1953 / Matthew D. Johnson

Modalities of state building : bureaucracy, campaign, and performance in Sunan, 1950-1953 / Julia C. Strauss

The wilds of revolution : anti-localism and Hainanese women in the early People's Republic of China / Jeremy A. Murray and Alexander J. Serrano

Reconstruction and solidification : the restructuring of "peasant" status in the 1950s dispersal of Shanghai's urban population / Ruan Qinghua

Anxiety in the revolutionary turn : Shanghai film personnel in the 1950s / Zhang Jishun

Letters from the people : the masses and the mass line in 1950s China / Aminda M. Smith

Cadres, grain, and rural conflicts : a study of criminal cases in a village during the Great Leap Forward / Jing Wenyu

How the CCP has failed to obtain control over China's collective memory on the 1950s / Anja Blanke

Postscript : rethinking China under Mao / Klaus Muhlhahn.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781009304146 (ebook)

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