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- Schoenhals, Michael, et al.
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Nebulous Nexus : Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China
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Ingår i: Mass Dictatorship and Modernity. - 9781137304322 ; #2 in book series "Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century", s. 53-70
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter posits the existence of a nexus of modernity and surveillance in the People’s Republic of China in the untidy post-Liberation decade of the 1950s. It identifies the state’s interception and perlustration of ordinary people’s correspondence for the purpose of discovering what they were thinking as a central component of that nexus, and it illustrates this identification with contemporary data culled from a corpus of recently declassified intercept transcripts. It argues that the creation of an alternative modernity—labelled communism but defined by discipline and quantifiable order rather than simply by ”freedom from want”—was attempted by China’s then political leadership, but ultimately abandoned in favour of the quiet consolidation of really existing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw) : The Heroes' Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan
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Ingår i: Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The individual and the masses in literature and cinema. - 9781137330680 ; #5 in book series "Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century"
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- This book chapter introduces the reader to an anthology of reportage, essays, eulogies, poems, proclamations, drawings, photographs, letters and more from the most chaotic phase of China’s Cultural Revolution. Entitled A Heroes’ Register, it is one of no more than a handful of surviving self-documenting accounts by the ‘dictating masses’ themselves of the ‘dictatorship of the masses’, as the Maoist socio-political order was indeed spoken of in the PRC in 1968. What it documents is the dark side of direct democracy, the unfettered ‘mass’ application of coercive powers devolved to ‘grass roots’ communities from and by the state. It is not a purely factual record, nor is it fiction, but a hybrid literary form with snippets of ‘raw’ data added like a docudrama script. Once the Cultural Revolution was over, ‘mass dictatorship’ was denounced as a fatally flawed experiment, and it was ordered that artefacts from it be destroyed. Four decades on, this anthology is a work out of step with the current times: the modern China bears no resemblance to what was expected or willed at the time it was written; and the present seems happy, most of the time, not to be reminded of what the past may once have been like.
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Mass Dictatorship and Modernity
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract in Undetermined Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the ‘mass dictatorship’ series launched by Hanyang University's Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture and published by Palgrave. As a transnational academic research venture, the volume interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context by focusing on the formation of modernity through interactions of the centre and periphery, of the empire and colony, and of democracy and dictatorship on a global scale.
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- Schoenhals, Michael
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"Document of the Month" - a regular feature of the PRC History Group website
- 2014
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As of February 2014, a regular monthly contribution to the PRC History Group's website (prchistory.org/document-of-the-month) comprising the selection and reproduction of a unique archival record from the first decades of the People's Republic of China with added contextualizing, critical, and explanatory commentary highlighting the significance and importance of the document in question.
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Is the Cultural Revolution Really Necessary?
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Ingår i: China's Communist Revolutions: Fifty Years of the People's Republic of China. - 0700716300 ; , s. 159-176
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