Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes
Reeducation, Resistance, and the People
Seiten
2012
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1837-6 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1837-6 (ISBN)
Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most important aspects of those origins, the essential relationship between thought reform and the “dangerous classes”—the prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other “lumpenproletarians” that Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Through formerly unavailable classified documents, as well as diaries, oral histories, and memoirs, Aminda Smith takes readers inside the early-PRC reformatories where the new state endeavored to transform socially marginalized “vagrants” into socially integrated members of the laboring masses. As sites where “the people” were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing discourses about the praxis of thought reform as well as the subjects it aimed to produce. Her book explores reformatories as institutions dedicated to molding new socialist citizens and as symbolic spaces through which internees, cadres, and the ordinary masses made sense of what it meant to be a member of the people in the People’s Republic of China. She offers convincing new answers to much-debated questions about the nature of the crucial decade of the 1950s, especially with respect to the development and future of PRC political culture.
Aminda M. Smith is assistant professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.
Chapter 1: Finding a Place for the Lumpenproletariat: Vacillators and Rural Revolution
Chapter 2: The People versus Their Enemies: Urban Reeducation and the Old Society
Chapter 3: The Curriculum of Consciousness Raising: Low Consciousness and Mass Reeducation
Chapter 4: The Laboring Masses: Voluntarism and the People
Chapter 5: The People Stand Up: Resistance and Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
Reihe/Serie | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 232 mm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-1837-1 / 1442218371 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-1837-6 / 9781442218376 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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