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Anyuan: Mining China´s Revolutionary Tradition
Elizabeth Perry
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Paperback. How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? This title suggests an answer that lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 412 pages, 12 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
Series
Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271906
SKU
V9780520271906
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About Elizabeth Perry
Elizabeth Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is the author of many books, most recently: Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China and Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State.
Reviews for Anyuan: Mining China´s Revolutionary Tradition
"Meticulously researched and elegantly narrated... It is a book well worth reading."
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