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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) : 1 halftoneContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674287204
  • 9780674287211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05 23
LOC classification:
  • DS777.6 .M36 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Crimes, Labels, and Punishment -- 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 -- Part II. Mobilization -- 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 -- Part III. Culture and Communication -- 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 -- Part IV. Discontent -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Crimes, Labels, and Punishment -- 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 -- Part II. Mobilization -- 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 -- Part III. Culture and Communication -- 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 -- Part IV. Discontent -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)