Maoism at the Grassroots : Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism / Jeremy Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jeremy, Author.

Contributor:

Brown, Jeremy, 1976- editors.

Johnson, Matthew D., editors.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.

Communism.

Politics and culture--China--History--20th century.

Politics and culture.

Crime--China--History--20th century.

Crime.

Political participation--China--History--20th century.

Political participation.

Communication--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.

Communication.

Discontent--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.

Discontent.

Power (Social sciences)--China--History--20th century.

Power (Social sciences).

China--Social life and customs--1949-.

China.

China--Social conditions--1949-.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. How a “Bad Element” Was Made: The Discovery, Accusation, and Punishment of Zang Qiren

2. Moving Targets: Changing Class Labels in Rural Hebei and Henan, 1960–1979

3. An Overt Conspiracy: Creating Rightists in Rural Henan, 1957–1958

4. Revising Political Verdicts in Post-Mao China: The Case of Beijing’s Fengtai District

5. Liberation from the Loom? Rural Women, Textile Work, and Revolution in North China

6. Youth and the “Great Revolutionary Movement” of Scientific Experiment in 1960s–1970s Rural China

7. Adrift in Tianjin, 1976: A Diary of Natural Disaster, Everyday Urban Life, and Exile to the Countryside

8. Beneath the Propaganda State: Official and Unofficial Cultural Landscapes in Shanghai, 1949–1965

9. China’s “Great Proletarian Information Revolution” of 1966–1967

10. The Dilemma of Implementation: The State and Religion in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1990

11. Radical Agricultural Collectivization and Ethnic Rebellion: The Communist Encounter with a “New Emperor” in Guizhou’s Mashan Region, 1956

12. Caught between Opposing Han Chauvinism and Opposing Local Nationalism: The Drift toward Ethnic Antagonism in Xinjiang Society, 1952–1963

13. Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s

Epilogue

Notes

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-28721-5

OCLC:

925305876