Chinese Revolution in Practice - From Movement to the State

This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China's transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Yun Daiying's Social Engagement and Political Transformation, 1917-1921 2. Political Education in Land Reform and Military Training Under the CCP 3. Historiography, Memory, and Myth in Maoist China 4. The Social Construction and Deconstruction of Evil Landlords in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Art, and Collective Memory 5. Extrajudicial Incarceration during the Cultural Revolution 6. Ritual, Reading, and Resistance in the Prison and Cowshed during the Cultural Revolution. Conclusion

About the author

Guo Wu is an associate professor of history at Allegheny College, USA. His main research interests include modern Chinese nationalism, southern ethnic minority studies, and the Chinese communist revolution. His most influential books include Zheng Guanying: Merchant Reformer of Late Qing China and His Influence on Economics, Politics, and Society (2010).

Product details

• Authors: Wu Guo
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032576213
• ISBN: 978-1-032-57621-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Asian History, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General