China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
Herausgeber: Chong, Woei Lien

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Produktbeschreibung

Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rl Books
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 148mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780742518742
• ISBN-10: 0742518744
• Artikelnr.: 21577181

Autorenporträt

Edited by Woei Lien Chong

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Master Narratives Chapter 1: Rethinking China's
Cultural Revolution amid Reform Chapter 2: China's Inner Demons: The
Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm Chapter 3: From Harmony to
Struggle, from Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in
Mao Zedong's Thought Chapter 4: Red and Expert: China's "Foreign Friends"
in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-1969 Chapter 5: The
Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural
Revolution and Beyond Chapter 6: The Ideal Socialist Hero: Literary
Conventions in Cultural Revolution Novels Part II: Post-Mao
Counternarratives Chapter 7: Philosophy in an Age of Crisis. Three Thinkers
in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Li Zehou, Liu Xiaobo, and Liu Xiaofeng
Chapter 8: Resisting Current Stereotypes: Private Narrative Strategies in
the Autobiographies of Former Rusticated Women Chapter 9: China's
Generation X: Rusticated Red Guards in Controversial Contemporary Plays
Chapter 10: The Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai's Fiction