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The Maoism of PRC History

Against Dominant Trends in Anglophone Academia
  • ISBN-13: 9781478017585
  • Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Aminda Smith, Edited by Fabio Lanza
  • Price: AUD $32.99
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  • Local release date: 14/03/2022
  • Format: Paperback 266 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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Contributors to this special issue investigate the current state of People's Republic of China (PRC) history, positing that the methods Anglophone, non-Chinese scholars have developed and deployed over the last several decades led to important misreadings of the historical record. The contributors argue that Chinese people have, from the rise and fall of Maoist ideology to the subsequent post-disillusionment era, produced political subjectivities and revolutionary upheavals that challenged traditional societal and pedagogical systems. Therefore, producing better scholarship requires taking seriously the way PRC history is necessarily and profoundly political. Essay topics include the unattainable and unfilled aspirations that Maoism engendered, the problems that mark the practice of PRC history to this day, and the ideological approach that frames both how we read Mao-era sources and understand Maoist politics in general. Other topics include how US academia writes the history of the PRC-especially with the problematic dominance of social scientific methods-and the differences between labor in Maoist China and labor under capitalism. Contributors. Jeremy Brown, Alexander Day, Matthew D. Johnson, Fabio Lanza, Covell Meyskens, Sigrid Schmalzer, Aminda Smith, Jake Werner
Aminda Smith is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and author of Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People. Fabio Lanza is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona and author of The End of Concern: Maoism, Activism, and Asian Studies, also published by Duke University Press.
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