TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Kerry
AU  - Nieuwenhuizen,Simone van
TI  - China and the New Maoists
T2  - Asian Arguments Series
SN  - 9781783607617
AV  - DS736 
U1  - 320.951 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
KW  - China--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Asian Arguments -- About the Authors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Terminology: Maoism and Leftism -- The Religion of Maoism -- The Question of Charisma -- 1. The Tale of the Victim, Zhang Zhixin -- Sources -- 2. The Chairman's Life After Death -- Mao 2.0 -- Mao and the Fifth Generation Leaders -- Having Your Cake and Eating It: Mao and Contradiction -- Twilight of Harmonious China -- Mao Overboard: Maoism in the Outside World -- 3. Defender of the Faith: Deng Liqun and Leftism -- The Life of a Leftist -- What Influences Post-Mao Leftists? -- The Fight for the Right Path: 1980s Reforms and the Rise of Chinese Capitalism -- Existential Crisis: 1989, the Fall of the Soviet Union and the 'End of History' -- Deng contra Deng: The Final Showdown -- Sources -- 4. Maoism in Motion: The Red Campaign of Bo Xilai in Chongqing -- Aristocratic Roots -- The Roots of the Chongqing Model -- The Divine Right of the Party to Rule? -- Seeing Red, Singing Mao -- Demise of a Good Maoist -- 5. Blurred Lines: Mao, the CPC and Chinese Society Today -- Red Tourism -- Xi Jinping on Mao -- Revolutionary Martyrs and the Party's Fight Against Historical Nihilism -- Mao as Saviour: The Case of Cairo Declaration -- 6. Mad About Mao -- Modern Mao Fever -- What Is Communism Anyway? -- Searching for Utopia in Cyberspace -- The Online Language of the Maoists -- Mao Was No Softie -- Bi Fujian: The Cost of Mocking Mao -- Spring and Autumn Annals: The Cost of Disrespecting Martyrs -- Capitalism and Charity -- Crazy About Collectives -- Intellectuals and the Leftist Critique of Modern China -- A Maoist Abroad: Li Minqi -- Conclusion: Mao's Second Coming -- Who Is Mao? -- Echt Mao -- A Failure in Life, a Success in Death -- Tomorrow's Mao -- Selected Reading -- Notes -- Index
N2  - An absorbing account of the continued influence of Chairman Mao on contemporary China, and of efforts by the New Maoists to claim his legacy
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