Title Anyuan : mining China's revolutionary tradition / Elizabeth J. Perry

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps illustration Series Asia : local studies/global themes, 1555-7812 ; 24 Asia--local studies/global themes ; 24 Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 Rehearsing Revolution; 2 Teaching Revolution; 3 China's Little Moscow; 4 From Mobilization to Militarization; 5 Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition; 6 Mao's Final Crusade; 7 Reforming the Revolutionary Tradition; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; L; I; M; N; P; S; T; W; X; Y; Z; Bibliography of English-Language Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 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 a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as "China's Little Moscow," Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2023) Subject 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 HISTORY -- Asia -- China. HISTORY -- Asia -- General. Coal miners Communism Economic history Labor movement Political culture Politics and government Revolutions -- Social aspects Social change Social conditions Working class SUBJECT Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject China -- Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012003939 ISBN 9780520954038 0520954033 1280882050 9781280882050 9786613723369 6613723363

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