Chongqing''s Red Culture Campaign - Simulation and Its Social Implications

Based on fieldwork conducted in Chongqing, including interviews and document analysis, this book examines the nature of Chongqing's Red culture campaign and the interaction between the political programme and the practices of its participants, above all, analysing how far the the campagin was a return to Maoist revolutionary mass campaigning.

List of contents

1. Chongqing Under the Spotlight: The ‘Chongqing Model’ and its Controversies
2. Putting China’s Mass Campaigns into Perspective
3. Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign as Simulation
4. Who were the Participants in Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign?
5. Experiencing the Campaign: Patterns of Practices by the local people in Chongqing
6. How the Official Programme Interacted with the Practices of the Local Participants: Exchange
7. How the Official Programme Interacted with the Practices of the Local Participants: Framing
8. Conclusion

About the author

MEI Xiao is a researcher currently based in Beijing. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

Summary

Based on fieldwork conducted in Chongqing, including interviews and document analysis, this book examines the nature of Chongqing’s Red culture campaign and the interaction between the political programme and the practices of its participants, above all, analysing how far the the campagin was a return to Maoist revolutionary mass campaigning.

Product details

• Authors: Xiao Mei, Mei Xiao, Mei Xiao
• Assisted by: Reza Hasmath (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138222311
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22231-1
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China; Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Revolutionary groups & movements, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions