Lanza Fabio Lanza

End of Concern (eBook, PDF)

Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political, and financial structures. While the CCAS included scholars of Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia, the committee focused on Maoist China, as it offered the possibility of an alternative politics and the transformation of the meaning of labor and the production of knowledge. In The End of Concern Fabio Lanza traces the complete history of the CCAS, outlining how its members worked to merge their politics and activism with their scholarship. Lanza's story exceeds the intellectual history and legacy of the CCAS, however; he narrates a moment of transition in Cold War politics and how Maoist China influenced activists and intellectuals around the world, becoming a central element in the political upheaval of the long 1960s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372431
• Artikelnr.: 54786882

Autorenporträt

Fabio Lanza is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing, and coeditor of De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Of Ends and Beginnings; or, When China Existed  1
1. America's Asia: Discovering China, Rethinking Knowledge  23
2. To Be, or Not to Be, a Scholar: The Praxis of Radicalism in Academia  67
3. Seeing and Understanding: China as the Place of Desire  101
4. Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at Its End  143
Epilogue. Area Redux: The Destinies of "China" in the 1980s and 1990s  175
Notes  195
Bibliograpy  241
Index  257