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100	1		_aHe, Qiliang _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe People’s West Lake : _bPropaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976 / _cQiliang He.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a1 online resource (216 p.) : _b22 b&w illustrations
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter One. Water, Labor, and Microbes -- _tChapter Two. “Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor” -- _tChapter Three. Forests, Propaganda, and Agency -- _tChapter Four. Socialist Pigs -- _tChapter Five. “Ghosts as Neighbors” -- _tConclusion -- _tAbbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe People’s West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou’s urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city’s culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible results—a lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial grounds—while also being readily subject to the Party’s propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood. The CCP’s endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities’ planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCP’s sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters’ a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the People’s Republic of China. Using a project-based approach, The People’s West Lake gives the nature-human relationship in Mao’s China (best known as Mao’s “war against nature”) historical and cultural specificities to reexamine the PRC regime’s central planning and the issues related to it.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aCity planning _zChina _zHangzhou Shi.
650		0	_aCommunism and ecology _zChina _zWest Lake.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zChina _zWest Lake.
650		0	_aPropaganda, Communist _zChina _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / China. _2bisacsh
653			_aChina.
653			_aNature-Human Relationships.
653			_aNature.
653			_aSocial Science.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824896904?locatt=mode:legacy
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