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Author | : Sijie Dai |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 037541309X |
Download Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.
Author | : Yang Jisheng |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2021-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374716919 |
Download The World Turned Upside Down Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
Author | : Frank Dikötter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1632864231 |
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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.
Author | : Lena Henningsen |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030733831 |
Download Cultural Revolution Manuscripts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen’s analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these readers-turned-copyists. Through copying, readers modified the stories and became secondary authors who reflected on the realities of the Cultural Revolution. Through an enquiry into actual reading practices as mapped in autobiographical accounts and into intertextual references within the stories, the book also positions manuscript fiction within the larger reading cosmos of the long 1970s. Henningsen analyzes the production, circulation and consumption of these texts, considering continuities across the alleged divide of the end of the Mao-era and the beginning of the reform period. The book further reveals how these texts achieved fruitful afterlives as re-published bestsellers or as adaptations into comic books or movies, continuing to shape the minds of their audience and the imaginations of the past. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author | : Lan Yang |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1998-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9622094678 |
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The book covers the choice of subject matter, authorship and readership of Cultural Revolution fiction. It analyses the characterization of heroes promoted in the literary and artistic field during this period. By comparing Cultural Revolution fiction with the fiction of the preceding period, with Soviet fiction, and with some traditional Chinese and Western fiction, this analysis emphasizes the ideological and cultural significance of the characteristics shown in the heroes personal background and their physical, temperamental and behavioural qualities, etc. This book will be of significant benefit to both students and scholars of Chinese literature, language and society.
Author | : Joseph W. Esherick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9780804767989 |
Download The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential "revolutionary" leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.
Author | : Roderick MACFARQUHAR |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674040414 |
Download Mao's Last Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ruoxi Chen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780253216908 |
Download The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated to Pinyin romanization. A new introduction reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tianamen era.
Author | : Chih-tsing Hsia |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253334770 |
Download A History of Modern Chinese Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Regarded as a pioneering classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction, this volume covers some 60 years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.'
Author | : Paul Clark |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2008-03-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521875153 |
Download The Chinese Cultural Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyzes the Cultural Revolution through the conflict between innovation and a top-down enforcement of modernity.