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- Schoenhals, Michael, et al.
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Nebulous Nexus : Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China
- 2013
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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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- Schoenhals, Michael, et al.
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The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw) : The Heroes' Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan
- 2013
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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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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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- Borglid, Lars-Ola
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《1967年春天的北京——瑞典人的记录》
- 2014
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Ingår i: Remembrance 《记忆》. ; , s. 3-7
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- En översättning till kinesiska av sidorna 65-66 i boken Bilder från Maos Kina (plus ett antal fotografier ur samma bok), med översättares kommentar.
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- Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria, et al.
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The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissidents: The Case of Herta Müller
- 2013
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Ingår i: Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema. - 9781137330680 ; , s. 28-51
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the role of the dissident intellectual in the post-dictatorship era. More specifically, it looks at the reaction in the Romanian cultural press and in the daily newspapers to the awarding of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German writer. Müller is known for her anti-Communist stance as well as her critique of those Romanian political and intellectual elites judged too shy in distancing themselves from the Communist past. I would suggest that the ambivalent attitude of the media towards Müller’s prize reflects the hesitation of both the public and elite to critically engage with the recent past. The effectiveness of Müller’s intransigent attitude is also questioned, that is, more broadly, whether former anti-Communist dissidents are still in a position to mobilize interest and reaction in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes.
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Imagining Mass Dictatorships : The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume in the series 'Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century' sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships. Generously defined, the 'literary' in this context covers a wide spectrum of narrative forms, ranging from the commercial television documentary to popular crime fiction, and from digitally restored amateur film on DVD to the Nobel Prize winning novel. It deals with mass dictatorship regimes as far apart as Nazi Germany, Park Chung-hee's South Korea, Stalinist Russia, post-war Hungary, Mao Zedong's China, apartheid's South Africa, and Ceausescu's Romania. The interplay of analytical ideas and the transnational perspectives that this volume brings add a new dimension to our understanding of traumatic events – 'dark chapters' – in 20th century history. By focusing the immense role of imagination within a cultural discourse otherwise dominated by irrefutable facts such as the existence of Holocaust and Gulag, this volume opens new ways of thinking perceptively about trauma, power and self.
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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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Nio liv: Livsberättelser för myndighetsbruk - brottstycken ur nio personakter från Maos Kina
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna antologi innehåller ett slumpmässigt urval av helt vanliga kinesers opublicerade livsberättelser, författade mellan 1950 och 1981. Originalberättelserna har snappats upp på loppmarknader i Beijing, Shanghai och Nanjing och har här översatts till svenska av studenter vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum vid Lunds universitet. De skildrar inte bara nio liv som kontrarevolutionär, arkivarie, tekniker, arbetslös, skrivbiträde, prostituerad eller lärare i en miljö fylld av krig, revolution och umbäranden: de dokumenterar även den moderna historiens mest omfattande kollektiva självbiografiska projekt, initierat med Sovjetunionen som förebild av myndigheterna i Mao Zedongs folkrepublik.
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