Afterlives of Chinese Communism

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ISBN (print):

9781788734769

ISBN (online):

9781760462499

Publication date:

Jun 2019

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/ACC.2019

Co-publisher:

Verso Books

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration

Countries:

East Asia: China

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• Preliminary Pages (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Introduction (PDF, 2.7MB) – Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere

1. Aesthetics (PDF, 0.1MB) – Christian Sorace doi
2. Blood Lineage (PDF, 0.1MB) – Yi Xiaocuo doi
3. Class Feeling (PDF, 0.1MB) – Haiyan Lee doi
4. Class Struggle (PDF, 0.1MB) – Alessandro Russo doi
5. Collectivism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Gao Mobo doi
6. Contradiction (PDF, 0.1MB) – Carlos Rojas doi
7. Culture (PDF, 0.1MB) – Dai Jinhua doi
8. Cultural Revolution (PDF, 0.1MB) – Patricia M. Thornton doi
9. Datong and Xiaokang (PDF, 0.1MB) – Craig A. Smith doi
10. Dialectical Materialism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Pang Laikwan doi
11. Dignity of Labour (PDF, 0.1MB) – Wang Ban doi
12. Formalism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Roy Chan doi
13. Friend and Enemy (PDF, 0.1MB) – Michael Dutton doi
14. Global Maoism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Fabio Lanza doi
15. Immortality (PDF, 0.1MB) – Gloria Davies doi
16. Justice (PDF, 0.1MB) – William J. Hurst doi
17. Labour (PDF, 1.2MB) – Covell Meyskens doi
18. Large and Communitarian (PDF, 0.1MB) – Luigi Tomba doi
19. Line Struggle (PDF, 0.1MB) – Yoshihiro Ishikawa and Craig A. Smith doi
20. Mass Line (PDF, 0.1MB) – Lin Chun doi
21. Mass Supervision (PDF, 0.1MB) – Joel Andreas doi
22. Mobilisation (PDF, 0.1MB) – Li Zhiyu doi
23. Museum (PDF, 0.8MB) – Denise Y. Ho doi
24. Nationality (PDF, 0.1MB) – Uradyn E. Bulag doi
25. New Democracy (PDF, 0.1MB) – Marc Blecher doi
26. Paper Tiger (PDF, 0.2MB) – Judith Balso doi
27. Peasant (PDF, 0.1MB) – Alexander F. Day doi
28. People’s War (PDF, 0.1MB) – Guan Kai doi
29. Permanent Revolution (PDF, 0.1MB) – Matthew Galway doi
30. Poetry (PDF, 0.1MB) – Claudia Pozzana doi
31. Practice (PDF, 0.1MB) – Aminda Smith doi
32. Primitive Accumulation (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jane Hayward doi
33. Rectification (PDF, 0.2MB) – Andrew Mertha doi
34. Red and Expert (PDF, 0.1MB) – Sigrid Schmalzer doi
35. Removing Mountains and Draining Seas (PDF, 0.1MB) – Anna Lora-Wainwright doi
36. Revolution (PDF, 0.1MB) – Cai Xiang doi
37. Self-reliance (PDF, 0.1MB) – Yang Long doi
38. Semifeudalism, Semicolonialism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Tani Barlow doi
39. Sending Films to the Countryside (PDF, 2.7MB) – Tong Lam doi
40. Serve the People (PDF, 0.1MB) – Rebecca E. Karl doi
41. Socialist Law (PDF, 0.1MB) – Susan Trevaskes doi
42. Speaking Bitterness (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jeffrey Javed doi
43. Sugarcoated Bullets (PDF, 0.1MB) – Benjamin Kindler doi
44. Superstition (PDF, 0.1MB) – John Williams doi
45. Surpass (PDF, 0.1MB) – William A. Callahan doi
46. Third World (PDF, 0.1MB) – Teng Wei doi
47. Thought Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – Timothy Cheek doi
48. Trade Union (PDF, 0.2MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
49. United Front (PDF, 0.1MB) – Laura De Giorgi doi
50. Utopia (PDF, 0.1MB) – Ou Ning doi
51. Women’s Liberation (PDF, 0.2MB) – Wang Lingzhen doi
52. Work Team (PDF, 0.1MB) – Elizabeth J. Perry doi
53. Work Unit (PDF, 0.1MB) – Kevin Lin doi

• Afterword (PDF, 0.4MB) – Jodi Dean
• Acknowledgements (PDF, 0.1MB)
• Contributors (PDF, 0.1MB)
• References (PDF, 0.4MB)

Reviews

‘Whether Maoist China was a “cunning of reason” to achieve nationalism through a communist strategy, or the reverse, is certainly one of the few enigmas whose resolution is truly decisive if we want to know where we stand now, in the global age of absolute capitalism and its looming crisis. It is hotly disputed. This book, to put it in Spinozian terms, does not deride or idealize: it seeks to understand. Which makes it invaluable.’
– Etienne Balibar, author of The Philosophy of Marx and Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein)

‘Afterlives of Chinese Communism explores the key concepts of revolutionary China and how they have been repurposed in the post-socialist present. This masterful ensemble of essays challenges us to learn from China’s socialist past— its visions, accomplishments, and mistakes—as we contemplate our possible futures.’
– Gail Hershatter, University of California–Santa Cruz

‘Afterlives of Chinese Communism is an incredible political and historical resource as well as being an unquestionable achievement of accessible and engaged scholarship. This volume dispels the fog of Cold War infused denunciation and Western countercultural idealization of Maoism and Chinese Communism: the collective nature of its labors makes itself felt in the cross-referenced, dialogic quality of the contributions. A rigorous historiography from the Left, the authors, who range from graduate students and activists to the most accomplished scholars in the field, remain unstintingly objective, while being faithful to the political horizons of Communism on its own terms. Each contribution historicizes the CCP’s political struggles without reducing them to theoretical clichés. The volume will offer every reader a sobering, yet inspiring vision of what can be accomplished in the name of Leftism and class-based mass politics.’
– Catherine Liu, University of California–Irvine

‘This is a varied and valuable collection of short essays on words and concepts. The editors have brought together an admirably diverse set of contributors, allowing them to showcase work done in a wide range of locales and disciplines, and the result is a book that works well as both a text to read straight through and as a resource to dip into when trying to make sense of an issue, a document, or an event associated with the Mao era.’
– Jeffrey Wasserstrom, editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China

‘Complete, authoritative, and clear, this masterfully selected volume should become the indispensable resource not only for scholars of modern China but also anyone interested in the global history of radical politics in the tumultuous twentieth century.’
– Yiching Wu, University of Toronto