Anyuan Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

Name: Anyuan Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
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ISBN: 9780520271906

ISBN-10: 0520271904

ISBN-13: 9780520271906

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elizabeth Perry

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How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage," on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese." Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.86" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Antonio Negri is an independent researcher and writer. He has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua.Sebastian Heilmann is Professor of Comparative Government and the Political Economy of China at the University of Trier.Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.



List Of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction



Rehearsing Revolution



Teaching Revolution: The Strike of 1922



China's Little Moscow



From Mobilization to Militarization



Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition



Mao's Final Crusade: Purifying the Revolutionary Tradition



Reforming the Revolutionary Tradition


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography of English-Language Sources


Index