Anyuan : mining China's revolutionary tradition
Title:
Anyuan : mining China's revolutionary tradition
Author:
Perry, Elizabeth J.
ISBN:
9780520271906
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012
Physical Description:
xv, 392 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Series:
Asia : local studies/global themes ; 24
Asia :local studies/global themes ; 24
Series Title:
Asia : local studies/global themes ;
Asia :local studies/global themes ;
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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.
Subject Term:
Subject:
| Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Politics and government -- 20th century |
| Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Social conditions -- 20th century |
| Communism -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Revolutions -- Social aspects -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Political culture -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Social change -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Coal miners -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Labor movement -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Working class -- China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) -- History -- 20th century |
| Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century |
Summary:
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.