Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates / / Hung-yok Ip.

• Superior document: Chinese worlds
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Ip, Hung-yok, 1961-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Chinese worlds.
• Physical Description: xii, 328 p.
• Notes: "First published 2005 by Routledge ... London ... "; "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Table of Contents

• Part I. Introduction
• Perspectives
• Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective
• Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey
• Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai
• Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong
• Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective
• Narrating politicized subjectivity
• The nobility of ambivalence and devotion
• Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience
• Clinging to refinement in the revolution
• Part V. Epilogue
• Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections
• Conclusion.