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Category : Posters, Chinese
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 0
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Mao Chu-hsi ai hsiao p'eng yu (Chairman Mao Love Children).
Author: Mao Chu-hsi hsiao shih hou ti ku shih (Story of Chairman Mao's childhood).
Author: Wei-amg MaoHung hsiao ping je ai Mao chu hsi (Little red guards love Chairman Mao).
Author: Linguistic Engineering
Author: Ji FengyuanPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824844688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ideological transformation was a massive program of linguistic engineering. They taught everyone a new political vocabulary, gave old words new meanings, converted traditional terms to revolutionary purposes, suppressed words that expressed "incorrect" thought, and required the whole population to recite slogans, stock phrases, and scripts that gave "correct" linguistic form to "correct" thought. They assumed that constant repetition would cause the revolutionary formulae to penetrate people's minds, engendering revolutionary beliefs and values. In an introductory chapter, Dr. Ji assesses the potential of linguistic engineering by examining research on the relationship between language and thought. In subsequent chapters, she traces the origins of linguistic engineering in China, describes its development during the early years of communist rule, then explores in detail the unprecedented manipulation of language during the Cultural Revolution of 1966–1976. Along the way, she analyzes the forms of linguistic engineering associated with land reform, class struggle, personal relationships, the Great Leap Forward, Mao-worship, Red Guard activism, revolutionary violence, Public Criticism Meetings, the model revolutionary operas, and foreign language teaching. She also reinterprets Mao’s strategy during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, showing how he manipulated exegetical principles and contexts of judgment to "frame" his alleged opponents. The work concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of linguistic engineering and an account of how the Chinese Communist Party relaxed its control of language after Mao's death.
The Battle for China's Past
Author: Mobo GaoPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745327808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mao and his policies have long been demonized in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite. This book tackles the extremely negative depiction of China under Mao in recent publications and argues that most people in China, including the rural poor and the urban working class, actually benefited from Mao's policies. Under Mao there was a comprehensive welfare system for the urban poor and basic health and education provision in rural areas. These policies are being reversed in the current rush towards capitalism. Offering a critical analysis of mainstream accounts of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution, this book sets the record straight, making a convincing argument for the positive effects of Mao's policies on the well-being of the Chinese people.
China's Continuous Revolution
Author: Lowell DittmerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520065994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era
Author: Deborah DavisPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082229
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.
Popular Media in China
Author: Godwin C. ChuPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture
Author: Victor H. MairPublisher: Latitude 20
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources—all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume—of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including sources from the non-Sinitic ethnic minorities.
The Politics of the Core Leader in China
Author: Xuezhi GuoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese 'core' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party's elite politics.