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Author Kang, Xiaofei, author

Title Enchanted revolution : ghosts, shamans, and gender politics in Chinese Communist propaganda, 1942-1953 / Xiaofei Kang
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Contents Cover -- Enchanted Revolution -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations I: Key Terms --Abbreviations II: Key Sources and Collections -- Note on Transliteration and Sources -- 1. Introduction: The Red, the Green, and the White -- Part I -- 2. A Time to Heal or a Time to Kill -- 3. From Loafers to Labor Heroes -- 4. Model Doctors and the Wonder of Science -- Part II -- 5. Catching the "Red-​Shoed Demoness" -- 6. An Enemy to Rise or an Enemy to Fall -- 7. A Different Place, a Different Direction -- Part III
8. Saving the Ghosts, Saving the People -- 9. Conclusion -- List of Electronic Databases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "The theoretical, methodological, and comparative frameworks for the discussion of religion, gender, and revolutionary propaganda in China. It then places this discussion in the historical context of wartime Communist headquarters of Yan'an, where the Party launched its first mass campaign against superstition in 1944-45. The campaign illustrates how Mao's mass-line principle compelled propaganda workers to engage with the rural culture in order to create new meanings from old knowledge"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Propaganda -- China -- History -- 20th century
Communism and religion -- China -- History -- 20th century
Occultism -- China -- History -- 20th century
Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1942-1945
Communism and religion.
Cultural policy.
Occultism.
Politics and government.
Propaganda.
Religion.
Asian history.
History.
SUBJECT China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
China -- Cultural policy -- 20th century
China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024171
China -- Religion -- History -- 20th century
Yan'an (Shaanxi Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century
Subject China.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022058194
ISBN 0197654495
9780197654491
9780197654507
0197654509
Other Titles Ghosts, shamans, and gender politics in Chinese Communist propaganda, 1942-1953