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The battle for China's past : Mao and the Cultural Revolution /
Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being surgically denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite. This book tackles the extremely negati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Battle for China's past; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Debating the Cultural Revolution; 2 Constructing history: memories, values and identity; 3 Constructing history: memoirs, autobiographies and biographies in Chinese; 4 Mao, The Unknown Story: an intellectual scandal; 5 Mao: the known story and the logic of denial; 6 How a medical doctor doctors history: a case study of Li Zhisui; 7 Challenging the hegemony: contrary narratives in the e- Media (I)
- Mao and the Cultural Revolution; 8 Challenging the hegemony: contrary narratives in the e- media (II)
- the Mao era.
- 9 The problem of the rural- urban divide in pursuit of modernity: values and attitudes10 The battle of China's history: seeing the past from the present; Conclusion: truth and belief values of socialism and China's future direction; Notes; Glossary of Chinese terms and names; Bibliography; Index.