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Hung, Chang-tai, 1949- author.
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
China -- Cultural policy.
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Politics of control ...
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Politics of control : creating Red culture in the early People's Republic of China / Chang-tai Hung.
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Hung, Chang-tai, 1949- author.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2021]
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
China -- Cultural policy.
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9780824884574 (hardcover)
0824884574 (hardcover)
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xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Policing Books in Beijing -- Censorship and Purges at a Municipal Newspaper: The Case of the Beijing Daily -- The Attack on a Popular Religious Sect: Yiguandao and Mass Mobilization -- Building Cultural Centers at the Grassroots -- Turning Chinese Children Red: Redesigning Kindergarten Education -- A Political Park: Public Space as Propaganda Theater -- Architecture and Ethnicity: Unity under One Roof?
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"Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control. Using newly available archival material, internal circulars, memoirs, interviews, and site visits, the book explores the fascinating world of mass media, book publishing, education, religion, parks, museums, and architecture during the formative years of the republic. When the Communists assumed power in 1949, they projected themselves as not only military victors but also as peace restorers and cultural protectors. Believing that they needed to manage culture in every arena, they created an interlocking system of agencies and regulations that was supervised at the center. Documents show, however, that there was internal conflict. Censors, introduced early at the Beijing Daily, operated under the "twofold leadership" of municipal-level editors but with final authorization from the Communist Party Propaganda Department. Politics of Control looks behind the office doors, where the ideological split between Party chairman Mao Zedong and head of state Liu Shaoqi made pragmatic editors bite their pencil erasers and hope for the best. In addition to designing a plan to nurture a new generation of Chinese revolutionaries, the party-state developed community centers that served as cultural propaganda stations. New urban parks were used to stage political rallies for major campaigns and public trials where threatening sects could be attacked. A fascinating part of the story is the way in which architecture and museums were used to promote ethnic unity under the Chinese party-state umbrella. The book's interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis is unique. Besides revealing how interlocking systems resulted in a pervasive method of control, it also examines how this system was influenced by the Soviet Union and how, nevertheless, Chinese nationalism always took precedence. Politics of Control convincingly argues that the PRC's formative period defined the nature of the Communist regime and its future development. The methods of cultural control have changed over time, but many continue to have relevance today"--
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