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How Maoism was made : reconstructing China, 1949-1965

Altehenger, Jennifer E., editor, Moore, Aaron William, 1977- editor, British Academy, associated with work

2025

Overview

\"How Maoism Was Made focuses on the history of the early years in China after 1949, featuring new scholarship by academics across Europe and North America. The field of early PRC history has been transformed by the unprecedented accessibility of archives from the 1990s to the early 2010s. Sixteen contributors show how the revolutionary system was built and maintained by the efforts of non-elite actors, including scientists, farmers, designers, artists, cadres, and ordinary citizens. By abandoning the Cold War political work of vilifying or celebrating Chinese communism, How Maoism Was Made aims to render the history of the Maoist system comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike, by viewing it through the lens of people who made it. Chinese communism is revealed to be a set of beliefs and practices that inspired millions of people to (re-)build their country and find a new life within it, at times with tragic consequences.\" -- Publisher.

• Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
• Subject: Communism China History 20th century. / China History 1949-1976.
• ISBN: 9780197267813, 0197267815

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS777.55 .H69 2025	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT