Maoism at the Grassroots : : Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism / / Jeremy Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Jeremy,
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Jeremy,; Eyferth, Jacob,; Haiguang, Wang,; Johnson, Matthew D.,; Kuisong, Yang,; Leese, Daniel,; Qingqing, Sha,; Schmalzer, Sigrid,; Schoenhals, Michael,; Shue, Vivienne,; Shuji, Cao,; Smith, S. A.,; Wang, Xiaoxuan,; Wu, Zhe,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 1 halftone

Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Crimes, Labels, and Punishment -- 1. How a "Bad Element" Was Made: The Discovery, Accusation, and Punishment of Zang Qiren -- 2. Moving Targets: Changing Class Labels in Rural Hebei and Henan, 1960-1979 -- 3. An Overt Conspiracy: Creating Rightists in Rural Henan, 1957-1958 -- 4. Revising Political Verdicts in Post-Mao China: The Case of Beijing's Fengtai District -- Part II. Mobilization -- 5. Liberation from the Loom? Rural Women, Textile Work, and Revolution in North China -- 6. Youth and the "Great Revolutionary Movement" of Scientific Experiment in 1960s-1970s Rural China -- 7. Adrift in Tianjin, 1976: A Diary of Natural Disaster, Everyday Urban Life, and Exile to the Countryside -- Part III. Culture and Communication -- 8. Beneath the Propaganda State: Official and Unofficial Cultural Landscapes in Shanghai, 1949-1965 -- 9. China's "Great Proletarian Information Revolution" of 1966-1967 -- 10. The Dilemma of Implementation: The State and Religion in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1990 -- Part IV. Discontent -- 11. Radical Agricultural Collectivization and Ethnic Rebellion: The Communist Encounter with a "New Emperor" in Guizhou's Mashan Region, 1956 -- 12. Caught between Opposing Han Chauvinism and Opposing Local Nationalism: The Drift toward Ethnic Antagonism in Xinjiang Society, 1952-1963 -- 13. Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index