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How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage", on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese". Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as "China's Little Moscow", "Anyuan" came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Anyuan
• Author: Elizabeth J Perry
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 412
• EAN: 9780520271890
• ISBN: 0520271890
• ID: 01204105
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 726 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2012

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