Maoism At the Grassroots - Everyday Life in Chinas Era of High Socialism

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. Matthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of East Asian Studies at Grinnell College. Jacob Eyferth is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of History, and the College, University of Chicago. Michael Schoenhals is Professor of Chinese at Chinese Lund University, Sweden. Klappentext Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance. Zusammenfassung Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao! providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata! ethnicities! and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities! despite political repression and surveillance.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Johnson Brown
• Assisted by: Jeremy Brown (Editor), Matthew D Johnson (Editor), Johnson Matthew D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2015
• EAN: 9780674287204
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28720-4
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, Political ideologies and movements