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Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism

Jeremy Brown

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Description for Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism Hardcover. "Maoism at the Grassroots" challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance. Num Pages: 412 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 816.
The Maoist state's dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume marshals new research to reveal a stunning diversity of individual viewpoints and local experiences during China's years of high socialism. Focusing on the period from the mid-1950s to 1980, the authors provide insights into the everyday lives of citizens across ... Read more

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Publisher

Harvard University Press

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2015

Condition

New

Weight

815g

Number of Pages

480

Place of Publication

Cambridge, Mass, United States

ISBN

9780674287204

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V9780674287204

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About Jeremy Brown

Jeremy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. Matthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of East Asian Studies at Grinnell College. Jacob Eyferth is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of History, and the College, University of Chicago. Michael Schoenhals is Professor ... Read more

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A new generation of Chinese and Western scholars is enriching the history of Mao Zedong's China with material from discarded personnel files, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts purchased from paper recyclers, as well as from recently opened local archives. Their view from below challenges the clich d images of regimented masses fanatically loyal to the revolution.
(02/10/2016) One of the many ... Read morelaudable features of the book is that it combines the work of Western and Chinese scholars...This volume shows what can be accomplished when both sides are represented. It is filled with memorable essays.
(10/27/2016) As a work of cultural history, Maoism at the Grassroots seeks to complicate interpretations of China's Mao era (1949-1976) through an examination of diverse and shared experiences of everyday life... As in the best edited volumes, each section of this book is nicely linked to the others and the authors make connections across the chapters rather than writing in isolation... This book is a must-read for scholars who work on the People's Republic of China and will prove rewarding as well to anyone curious about ordinary life under Communist Party rule. Maoism at the Grassroots also makes an important intervention in the larger project of writing modern Chinese history. Until recently, Western books on China were primarily written by white men and the occasional white woman. This volume features scholarship from an impressive array of both Western and Chinese academics, many of the latter being translated into English for the first time. This marks a turning point in the production of historical scholarship on the Mao era, and hopefully is an indication of growing collaboration among scholars in different parts of the West and in China.
(11/23/2015) For years, Maoist China was opaque from the outside
interpretable only by what a trickle of refugees said or by inference from government references to 'the masses.' That bland term is now pass , but the Western tendency to homogenize the common folk of China persists, especially in fields related to international relations, where scholars and journalists casually refer to 'the Chinese' as if government rhetoric described everyone. Maoism at the Grassroots is a magnificent antidote to this bad habit.
Perry Link, author of An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics Maoism at the Grassroots showcases the exciting new scholarship being produced by the rising generation of historians of the People's Republic of China. These chapters portray Mao-era society and politics with startling intimacy and humanity, drawing on a range of new sources that bring everyday experiences at the grassroots into sharp focus.
Andrew G. Walder, author of China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed Show Less

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