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Chongqing's Red Culture Campaign - Simulation and its social implications (Paperback)
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Chongqing's Red Culture Campaign - Simulation and its social implications (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China
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Between 2009 and 2012, the city of Chongqing came into the
national, and even international spotlight, as it became the
geographical centre of the 'Singing Red, Smashing Black' campaign,
and later the political storm that swept China. Chongqing's Red
Culture Campaign drew an incredible amount of interest at the time,
but speculation and prejudice has since blurred the public
understanding of the sensational story that ties the campaign with
the rise and fall of a political star, Bo Xilai. This book,
therefore, seeks to study the nature of Chongqing's Red Culture
Campaign, and the interaction between the political programme and
the practices of its participants. Based on fieldwork conducted in
Chongqing, it seeks to question whether the Red Culture Campaign
was actually a return to Maoist revolutionary mass campaigning
whilst examining the relationship between the CCP's political power
and the lives of the ordinary people as reflected in the case of
the campaign. Ultimately, it highlights that the campaign was not
in fact a real Maoist mass movement. Although it followed the
pre-existing model of past mass campaigns in China, containing a
series of frequent and highly performative operations, Xiao Mei
argues that it essentially demonstrated critical features of
'simulation'. By contributing to our understanding of the
discrepancies between a designed political programme, and what it
actually becomes when implemented on the ground, this book will be
of use to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Politics and
Sociology.
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