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Book SynopsisTreating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this volume explores its ideological dimensions. It focuses on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature and propaganda art.
Trade ReviewA very professional collection of essays. Standards of scholarship are high, and the essays are often provocative and informative....Many readers would benefit from its careful assessments, especially as the Western propaganda media too often simplify the Cultural Revolution as a cartoon of mob rule in which members of the Red Guard generation apparently spent an entire decade doing nothing but worshipping Mao and beating their teachers to death. * The China Journal *
China's Great Proletarian Revolution derives a little bit of extra fragrance from excellent bibliographies, a glossary of Chinese terms and a combined index at the end. * Pacific Affairs *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Master Narratives Chapter 1: Rethinking China's Cultural Revolution amid Reform Chapter 2: China's Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm Chapter 3: From Harmony to Struggle, from Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong's Thought Chapter 4: Red and Expert: China's "Foreign Friends" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966–1969 Chapter 5: The Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and Beyond Chapter 6: The Ideal Socialist Hero: Literary Conventions in Cultural Revolution Novels Part II: Post-Mao Counternarratives Chapter 7: Philosophy in an Age of Crisis. Three Thinkers in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Li Zehou, Liu Xiaobo, and Liu Xiaofeng Chapter 8: Resisting Current Stereotypes: Private Narrative Strategies in the Autobiographies of Former Rusticated Women Chapter 9: China's Generation X: Rusticated Red Guards in Controversial Contemporary Plays Chapter 10: The Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai's Fiction
