China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the ...Maoist state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.
The wind from the east Woli, Richard
2010., 20171114, 2010, 2010-07-01, 2017-11-14, 20100101
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Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural ...Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless expos of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life.
What shaped the ideas and actions of one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century? Presenting a new account of Mao Zedong’s lifelong engagement with philosophy, Robert Allinson reveals the ...extent to which Chinese and Western thinkers determined Mao’s political career. For the first time Mao’s understanding of early philosophers such as Confucius, Laozi, Aristotle, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is looked at in close detail. Drawing upon his exposure as a student to both traditional Chinese and Western philosophy, Allinson shows how Mao’s reading of Marxism utilized concepts from the traditional Yijingto produce a philosophy that departs from Engels and the Soviet model. By revealing how Mao’s reading of Western political thought, as well as misreadings of traditional Chinese thought impacted his thinking, Allinson presents a fresh and challenging study of the man who ushered in anti-intellectualism during the dark period of the Cultural Revolution.
El presente artículo investiga los vínculos políticos y artísticos entre el poeta chileno Pablo De Rokha (seudónimo de Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola, 1894-1968) y el proyecto maoísta. En este se ...argumenta que el encuentro armónico de De Rokha con el programa revolucionario chino responde a una serie de procesos y eventos personales, locales y globales que afectaron fuertemente las perspectivas del vate sobre el arte y la política. Así, esta contribución presenta a De Rokha como un tipo de revolucionario latinoamericano que se identificó con las ideas políticas y artísticas de Mao Zedong (1894-1976), basado en los problemas, experiencias y anhelos mutuos de ambas regiones. This paper researches the political and artistic links between the Chilean poet Pablo De Rokha (pen name for Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola, 1894-1968) and the Maoist project. It argues that De Rokha’s harmonic encounter with the Chinese revolutionary program responds to a series of personal, local and global processes and events that strongly affected the poet’s perspectives on art and politics. This contribution then introduces De Rokha as a Latin American revolutionary who identified with the political and artistic ideas of Mao Zedong 毛澤東 (1894-1976), based on the mutual problems, experiences, and aspirations of both regions.
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question ...through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru. Drawing on international relations theory and psychological research, Kennedy offers a new theoretical explanation for bold leadership in foreign policy, one that stresses the beliefs that leaders develop about the 'national efficacy' of their states. He shows how this approach illuminates several of Mao and Nehru's most important military and diplomatic decisions, drawing on archival evidence and primary source materials from China, India, the United States and the United Kingdom. A rare blend of theoretical innovation and historical scholarship, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is a fascinating portrait of how foreign policy decisions are made.
Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed one of the largest nations on earth and inspired revolutionary movements across the world. Even ...today Mao lives on in China, where he is regarded by many as a near-mythical figure, and in the West, where a burgeoning literature continues to debate his memory. In this book, leading scholars from different generations and around the world offer a critical evaluation of the life and legacy of China's most famous - some would say infamous - son. The book brings the scholarship on Mao up to date, and its alternative perspectives equip readers to assess for themselves the nature of this mercurial figure and his significance in modern Chinese history.
The strong increase in the expenditure of the Chinese cooperation for development is particularly relevant for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This article aims to analyze both the evolution ...and the perspective of the foreign Chinese help provided to LAC in three study parts: first, an overarching view of how Chinese help to LAC has evolved, which consists in six historic stages according to the political changes and the strategic and economic demands in the Asian country; second, presentation of empirical data related to the Official Assistance for Development together with the analysis of other Official Flows; third, an overview ofthe potential benefits for the region from the relations to China. We conclude that there is a high probability that the said help, other official flows, and the bilateral trade between China and LAC will contribute to the short- and medium-term growth in the region. However, even though China appears as a long-term ally, there are some doubts on the growth sustainability in the future since the LAC regions still has a strong dependence on the natural resources.
The transformation of the Chinese economy as a result of their national characteristics has been the object of a deep reflection in the last decades. In addition, different studies suggest that the ...economies in East Asia like Japan and South Korea owe their growth to the legacy of Confucius. In this century China puts Confucianism in the spotlight once again as a component of the ruler’s rhetoric for advancing to a “harmonious socialist society”. This work aims to pin down the building blocks of Confucianism in the development policies of the People’s Republic of China since their beginnings. This work is based on the analysis of the five-year resolutions issued by the National Congress of the CPC. It is concluded that Confucianism has influenced deeply and positively the economic development of China from the times of Mao Zedong to the first years of the current ruling by Xi Jinping. In this context, the relationship governor-subject, the pragmatism and Confucianism ethics stand out as the key building blocks.
Based on archival materials from several countries, especially China, , interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the ...Sino-Soviet alliance from the end of the World War II through 1959, when the alliance ended as a result of foreign and domestic policies. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and offers the first comprehensive account of it from a Chinese perspective.
"The writings of Mao Zedong have been circulated throughout the world more widely, perhaps, than those of any other single person this century. The “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and ...Art” has occupied a prominent position among his many works and has been the subject of intense scrutiny both within and outside China. This text has undoubted importance to modern Chinese literature and history. In particular, it reveals Mao’s views on such questions as the relationship between writers or works of literature and their audience, or the nature and value of different kinds of literary products. In this translation and commentary, Bonnie S. McDougall finds that Mao was in fact ahead of many of his critics in the West and his Chinese contemporaries in his discussion of literary issues. Unlike the majority of modern Chinese writers deeply influenced by Western theories of literature and society (including Marxism), Mao remained close to traditional patterns of thought and avoided the often mechanical or narrowly literal interpretations that were the hallmark of Western schools current in China in the early twentieth century. Many of the detailed discussions on the “Talks” in the West have been concerned with their political and historical significance. However, since Mao is a literary figure of some importance in twentieth-century China, McDougall finds it worthwhile to follow up his published remarks on the nature and source of literature and the means of its evaluation. By better understanding the complex and revolutionary ideas contained in the “Talks,” McDougall suggests we may acquire the necessary analytical tools for a more fruitful investigation into contemporary Chinese literature."
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