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Afterlives of Chinese communism : political concepts from Mao To xi / edited by Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : New York : ANU Press ; Verso Books, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462499
  • 1760462497
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 335.43/45 23
LOC classification:
  • HX418.5 .A38 2019eb
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Contents:
Intro; Introduction; 1. Aesthetics; 2. Blood Lineage; 3. Class Feeling; 4. Class Struggle; 5. Collectivism; 6. Contradiction; 7. Culture; 8. Cultural Revolution; 9. Datong and Xiaokang; 10. Dialectical Materialism; 11. Dignity of Labour; 12. Formalism; 13. Friend and Enemy; 14. Global Maoism; 15. Immortality; 16. Justice; 17. Labour; 18. Large and Communitarian; 19. Line Struggle; 20. Mass Line; 21. Mass Supervision; 22. Mobilisation; 23. Museum; 24. Nationality; 25. New Democracy; 26. Paper Tiger; 27. Peasant; 28. People's War; 29. Permanent Revolution; 30. Poetry; 31. Practice
32. Primitive Accumulation33. Rectification; 34. Red and Expert; 35. Removing Mountains and Draining Seas; 36. Revolution; 37. Self-reliance; 38. Semifeudalism, Semicolonialism; 39. Sending Films to the Countryside; 40. Serve the People; 41. Socialist Law; 42. Speaking Bitterness; 43. Sugarcoated Bullets; 44. Superstition; 45. Surpass; 46. Third World; 47. Thought Reform; 48. Trade Union; 49. United Front; 50. Utopia; 51. Women's Liberation; 52. Work Team; 53. Work Unit; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; References
Summary: Afterlives of Chinese Communism includes essays from over 50 world-renowned scholars in the China field, from different disciplines, and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the intellectual legacies of the Mao era shape Chinese politics today. The volume addresses the question: What lessons does the Chinese Revolution have for leftist thinking in the present? As a volume, the essays speak to each other by answering this question. Across the various approaches, there is a sensitivity to the potentials, enthusiasms, and resistances to domination that Maoist concepts once generated. Each essay provides an introduction to a concept or keyword in Chinese politics, its origins in the Mao era, uses in the present, and potential futures. Participating in an emerging conversation on the futures of communism, the edited volume is designed as an archive of the political vocabulary of Maoism, and a legend to the lost political cartographies of the past and any potential utopian futures.
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Intro; Introduction; 1. Aesthetics; 2. Blood Lineage; 3. Class Feeling; 4. Class Struggle; 5. Collectivism; 6. Contradiction; 7. Culture; 8. Cultural Revolution; 9. Datong and Xiaokang; 10. Dialectical Materialism; 11. Dignity of Labour; 12. Formalism; 13. Friend and Enemy; 14. Global Maoism; 15. Immortality; 16. Justice; 17. Labour; 18. Large and Communitarian; 19. Line Struggle; 20. Mass Line; 21. Mass Supervision; 22. Mobilisation; 23. Museum; 24. Nationality; 25. New Democracy; 26. Paper Tiger; 27. Peasant; 28. People's War; 29. Permanent Revolution; 30. Poetry; 31. Practice

32. Primitive Accumulation33. Rectification; 34. Red and Expert; 35. Removing Mountains and Draining Seas; 36. Revolution; 37. Self-reliance; 38. Semifeudalism, Semicolonialism; 39. Sending Films to the Countryside; 40. Serve the People; 41. Socialist Law; 42. Speaking Bitterness; 43. Sugarcoated Bullets; 44. Superstition; 45. Surpass; 46. Third World; 47. Thought Reform; 48. Trade Union; 49. United Front; 50. Utopia; 51. Women's Liberation; 52. Work Team; 53. Work Unit; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; References

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-404).

Afterlives of Chinese Communism includes essays from over 50 world-renowned scholars in the China field, from different disciplines, and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the intellectual legacies of the Mao era shape Chinese politics today. The volume addresses the question: What lessons does the Chinese Revolution have for leftist thinking in the present? As a volume, the essays speak to each other by answering this question. Across the various approaches, there is a sensitivity to the potentials, enthusiasms, and resistances to domination that Maoist concepts once generated. Each essay provides an introduction to a concept or keyword in Chinese politics, its origins in the Mao era, uses in the present, and potential futures. Participating in an emerging conversation on the futures of communism, the edited volume is designed as an archive of the political vocabulary of Maoism, and a legend to the lost political cartographies of the past and any potential utopian futures.

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