Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture

Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture

  • Auteur: Russo, Alessandro
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478008590
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781478012184
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2020
  • Mois : Août
  • Pages: 368
  • Langue: Anglais
In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical “prologue” of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. A Theatrical Prologue
    • 1. Afterlives of an "Upright Official"
    • 2. Political and Historical Dilemmas
    • 3. An Unresolved Controversy
  • Part II. Mao’s Anxiety and Resolve
    • 4. A Probable Defeat and Revisionism
    • 5. Shrinking the Cultural Superego
  • Part III. A Political Test for Class Politics
    • 6. Testing the Organization
    • 7. A Subjective Split in the Working Class
    • 8. Facing a Self-Defeat
  • Part IV. At the Edge of an Epochal Turning Point
    • 9. Intellectual Conditions for a Political Assessment
    • 10. Foundations of Deng Xiaoping's Strategy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
    • A
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    • C
    • D
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    • H
    • I
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    • N
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    • P
    • Q
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