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Minjian : The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals / Sebastian Veg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Chinese CulturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231191401
  • 9780231549400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5/520951 23
LOC classification:
  • DS779.23 .V44 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Grassroots Intellectuals: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- 2. Wang Xiaobo and the Silent Majority: Redefining the Role of Intellectuals After Tiananmen -- 3. Minjian Historians of the Mao Era: Commemorating, Documenting, Debating -- 4. Investigating and Transforming Society from the Margins: The Rise and Fall of Independent Cinema -- 5. Professionals at the Grassroots: Rights Lawyers, Academics, and Petitioners -- 6. Journalists, Bloggers, and a New Public Culture -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Minibiographies of Thirty Minjian Intellectuals -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people.In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China's public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Grassroots Intellectuals: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- 2. Wang Xiaobo and the Silent Majority: Redefining the Role of Intellectuals After Tiananmen -- 3. Minjian Historians of the Mao Era: Commemorating, Documenting, Debating -- 4. Investigating and Transforming Society from the Margins: The Rise and Fall of Independent Cinema -- 5. Professionals at the Grassroots: Rights Lawyers, Academics, and Petitioners -- 6. Journalists, Bloggers, and a New Public Culture -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Minibiographies of Thirty Minjian Intellectuals -- Notes -- Index

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Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people.In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China's public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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