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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Af: Guobin Yang Engelsk Hardback

The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Af: Guobin Yang Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231149648
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0231149646
Kategori: Asiatisk historie
Udg. Dato: 17 maj 2016
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 161mm
Højde: 239mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 17 maj 2016
Forfatter(e): Guobin Yang
Forfatter(e) Guobin Yang

Kategori Asiatisk historie

ISBN-13 9780231149648

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 161mm

Højde 239mm

Udg. Dato 17 maj 2016

Oplagsdato 17 maj 2016

Forlag Columbia University Press