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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520484
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China written by Guobin Yang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

China's New Red Guards

Author : Jude Blanchette
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190605847
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book China's New Red Guards written by Jude Blanchette and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy-a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. This book not only will reshape our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it will also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.

The Red Guard

Author : Hans Granqvist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Red Guard written by Hans Granqvist and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation and updating of Kinas Roda garde.

Fractured Rebellion

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268180
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Fractured Rebellion written by Andrew G. Walder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure. Most accounts of the movement have portrayed a struggle among Red Guards as a social conflict that pitted privileged “conservative” students against socially marginalized “radicals” who sought to change an oppressive social and political system. Walder employs newly available documentary evidence and the recent memoirs of former Red Guard leaders and members to demonstrate that on both sides of the bitter conflict were students from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, who shared similar—largely defensive—motivations. The intensity of the conflict and the depth of the divisions were an expression of authoritarian political structures that continued to exert an irresistible pull on student motives and actions, even in the midst of their rebellion. Walder’s nuanced account challenges the main themes of an entire generation of scholarship about the social conflicts of China’s Cultural Revolution, shedding light on the most tragic and poorly understood period of recent Chinese history.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : China Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835123884
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung written by Zedong Mao and published by China Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Red Guard

Author : Wenguang Huang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580666
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Little Red Guard written by Wenguang Huang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xi’an, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang’s grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night. Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma’s burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family’s memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.

Gang of One

Author : Fan Shen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293366
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Gang of One written by Fan Shen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.

Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton)

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000309231
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton) written by Stanley Rosen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification. The spectacle of severe splits among leaders long thought to be compatible, of armed struggles between factional units whose uniform pledges to Chairman Mao and the Party Center appeared to make their similarities greater than their differences, and of destructive Red Guards who were bent on "tearing down the old world to build a new one" was at first difficult to explain.

Notes of a Red Guard

Author : Eduard Martynovich Dune
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062773
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Notes of a Red Guard written by Eduard Martynovich Dune and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling never-before-published account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories, workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian revolution began. He joined the Bolshevik party and fought with the Moscow Red Guard during the October revolution. Notes of a Red Guard is his candid account of what happened through 1921. This uncensored account offers a rare glimpse of revolutionary Russia from the perspective of an educated, skilled worker who became a rank-and-file participant.

The Cultural Revolution

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1632864231
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution written by Frank Dikötter and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.

Confessions of a Red Guard

Author : Xiaosheng Liang
Publisher : Merwinasia
ISBN 13 : 9781937385781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Red Guard written by Xiaosheng Liang and published by Merwinasia. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries," real and imagined; a sex murder and the culprit's execution; a budding romance in a most unlikely place; stolen pleasures with forbidden books; the ecstasies and personal sacrifices surrounding a glimpse of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square; and a host of small ironies of life during a revolutionary movement.

My Chinese Dream

Author : Liu Ping
Publisher : Sinomedia International
ISBN 13 : 9780835100403
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book My Chinese Dream written by Liu Ping and published by Sinomedia International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented, unflinching, warts-and-all rags to riches story of one of China's most successful female entrepreneurs.

Mao's Last Revolution

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040414
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Revolution written by Roderick MACFARQUHAR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Born Red

Author : Yuan Gao
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765898
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Born Red written by Yuan Gao and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's father was a county political official who was in and out of trouble during those years, and the intense interplay between father and son and the differing perceptions and impact of the Cultural Revolution for the two generations provide both an unusual perspective and some extraordinary moving moments. He also makes deft use of traditional mythology and proverbial wisdom to link, sometimes ironically, past and present. Gao relates in vivid fashion how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against 'capitalist roader' teachers and administrators, marching them through the streets to the accompaniment of chants and jeers and driving some of them to suicide. Eventually the students divided into two factions, and school and town became armed camps. Gao tells of the exhilaration that he and his comrades experienced at their initial victories, of their deepening disillusionment as they utter defeat as the tumultuous first phase of the Cultural Revolution came to a close. The portraits of the persons to whom Gao introduces us - classmates, teachers, family members - gain weight and density as the story unfolds, so that in the end we see how they all became victims of the dynamics of a mass movement out of control.

The Cultural Revolution

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199740550
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution written by Richard Curt Kraus and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the radical Chinese Communist movement called the Cultural Revolution, a period of suppression so controversial in China, that the Chinese government forbids a full investigation into it even 50 years later. Original.

Children of Mao

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349073191
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Children of Mao written by Anita Chan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mao: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Delia Davin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654035
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Mao: A Very Short Introduction written by Delia Davin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. He was a founder of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and for many years he fought on two fronts, for control of the Party and in an armed struggle for the Party's control of the country. His revolution unified China and began its rise to world power status. He was the architect of the Great Leap Forward that he hoped would make China both prosperous and egalitarian, but instead ended in economic disaster resulting in millions of deaths. It was Mao's growing suspicion of his fellow leaders that led him to launch the Cultural Revolution, and his last years were dogged by ill-health and his despairing attempts to find a successor whom he trusted. Delia Davin provides an invaluable introduction to Mao, showing him in all his complexity; ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, yet a leader who is still detested by some and venerated by others. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.