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Maoism at the Grassroots - Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism (Hardcover)
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Maoism at the Grassroots - Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism (Hardcover)
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The Maoist state's dominance over Chinese society, achieved through
such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural
Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this
period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one
that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together
scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume
marshals new research to reveal a stunning diversity of individual
viewpoints and local experiences during China's years of high
socialism. Focusing on the period from the mid-1950s to 1980, the
authors provide insights into the everyday lives of citizens across
social strata, ethnicities, and regions. They explore how ordinary
men and women risked persecution and imprisonment in order to
assert personal beliefs and identities. Many displayed a shrewd
knack for negotiating the maze-like power structures of everyday
Maoism, appropriating regime ideology in their daily lives while
finding ways to express discontent and challenge the state's
pervasive control. Heterogeneity, limited pluralism, and tensions
between official and popular culture were persistent features of
Maoism at the grassroots. Men had gay relationships in factory
dormitories, teenagers penned searing complaints in diaries,
mentally ill individuals cursed Mao, farmers formed secret
societies and worshipped forbidden spirits. These diverse
undercurrents were as representative of ordinary people's lives as
the ideals promulgated in state propaganda.
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