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China and the New Maoists

China and the New Maoists

Name: China and the New Maoists
ISBN: 9781783607617

Kerry Brown & Simone van Nieuwenhuizen [Brown, Kerry & Nieuwenhuizen, Simone van]

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Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though many continue to revere him and he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly ambivalent towards him. And while he continues to be a highly visible and contentious presence in Chinese public life, Mao's enduring influence has been little understood in the West. In China and the New Maoists, Kerry Brown and Simone van Nieuwenhuizen looks at the increasingly vocal elements who claim to be the true ideological heirs to Mao, ranging from academics to cyberactivists, as well as at the state's efforts to draw on Mao's image as a source of legitimacy. A fascinating portrait of a country undergoing dramatic upheavals while still struggling to come to terms with its past.

Year:

2016

Publisher:

Zed Books

Language:

english

Pages:

201

ISBN 10:

1783607610

ISBN 13:

9781783607617