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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Librariesand the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at theTOME website, available at:openmonographs.org. Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, the intellectual was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profoundly a
Trade Review"[A]n illuminating approach, which shifts the study of intellectuals from the study of a social group to the construction of the concept itself . . ." * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *
"This well-researched and well-argued book makes a significant contribution to scholarship and will appeal to a wide audience in the China field, including graduate students of history, politics, sociology, and comparative communist studies." * China Quarterly *
"An informative and incisive study with theoretical significance and current relevance." * American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations 1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism
2. The Birth of a Classification
3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside
4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive
5. Classification and Organization in a School System
6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition
7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere
8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to Present
Character Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
