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Anyuan

Perry, Elizabeth J

2012

Overview

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 Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of \"political correctness\" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as \"China's Little Moscow,\" Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 20th century / 20th century china / ancient china / Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) / Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) / Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century / Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Politics and government -- 20th century / Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Social conditions -- 20th century / Asia / asian history / asian politics / China / chinese communism / chinese communist party / chinese culture / chinese history / chinese isolation / chinese politics / Coal miners / Coal miners -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / Coal mines / Communism / Communism -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / communist revolution / easy to read / Economic conditions / engaging / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / General / history of anyuan / history of communism / home school history books / how does communism work / Labor movement / Labor movement -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / Labour movements / learning from experts / mao zedong / nonfiction books / page turner / Political culture / Political culture -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / political science / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / politics and economy / Politics and government / quarantine books / red scare / Revolution / Revolutions / Revolutions -- Social aspects -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / russia communism / Social aspects / Social change / Social change -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century / Social conditions / social politics / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / what is communism / Working class / Working class - China - Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng: West) - History - 20th century
• ISBN: 0520271890, 0520271904, 9780520271890, 9780520271906, 9780520954038, 0520954033