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China's Soviet Dream - Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination (Hardcover)
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China's Soviet Dream - Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in
the People's Republic of China, with a focus on the period of
Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to
transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been
dismissed as a tool of propaganda and political indoctrination.
However, this book demonstrates that this transnational engagement
not only facilitated China's broader transition to socialist
modernity but also generated unintended consequences that outlasted
the propaganda. Drawing on archival findings, newspapers,
magazines, media productions, and oral interview, the book delves
into changes in Chinese popular imagination and everyday aesthetics
contingent upon Soviet influence. It proposes a revisionist view of
the Soviet impact on China, revealing that Soviet culture offered
Chinese people the language and imagery to conceive of their future
as a dream about material abundance, self-determination, and the
pleasures of leisure and cultural enrichment. Written with a
transnational, interdisciplinary, and thematic approach, this book
is aimed at scholars and students in the fields of Sino-Soviet
relations, international socialism, modern Chinese history,
cultural studies, and mass communication. It will also be of
interest to researchers seeking to understand the nature,
significance, and repercussions of Sino-Soviet cultural engagement.
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