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Chang-Tai Hung - Mao´s New World: Political Culture in the Early People´s Republic - 9780801449345 - V9780801449345
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Mao´s New World: Political Culture in the Early People´s Republic

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Description for Mao´s New World: Political Culture in the Early People´s Republic Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 66. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 696.

In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet ... Read more

Combining historical, cultural, and anthropological inquiries, Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949–1959). Using archival sources only recently made available, previously untapped government documents, visual materials, memoirs, and interviews with surviving participants in the Party's plans, Hung argues that the exploitation of new cultural forms for political ends was one of the most significant achievements of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The book features sixty-six images of architecture, monuments, and artwork to document how the CCP invented the heroic tales of the Communist Revolution.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449345
SKU
V9780801449345
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Chang-Tai Hung
Chang-tai Hung is Chair Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 and Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918–1937.

Reviews for Mao´s New World: Political Culture in the Early People´s Republic
Mao's New World is a series of illuminating essays on the culture of the early People’s Republic.
New York Review of Books
Chang-tai Hung's study of political culture in China in the 1950s is rich in detailed insights that complement his earlier treatment of the entwined subjects of politics and culture in War and Popular Culture: Resistance in ... Read more

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