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Awakening China - Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Awakening China - Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of
China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this
problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It
analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical
narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political
technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum,
it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this
century. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take
their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is
asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers,
revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in
common. Rumor is sometimes taken as seriously as truth, novels are
consulted as frequently as documents, and dreams are given a
prominence normally reserved for facts in the writing of history.
This book follows the legend of China's awakening from its origins
in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its
encounter with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to
its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to
wake up everyone. The idea of a national awakening crossed all
discursive boundaries to make room for nationalist politics in
personal culture and helped to conscript personal culture into
service of the revolutionary state. The book focuses on the
Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun
Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and
the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass
awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of
Mao's role in the NationalistPropaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a
master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant
movement activist.
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