Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader

Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781315285764
ISBN-13 : 1315285762
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader by : Geremie Barme

Download or read book Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader written by Geremie Barme and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. ... The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction". -- Reference & Research Book News "(A) highly entertaining and informative collection of translations of official, admiring, tacky, but sometimes also highly critical writings, and illustrations of objects, all featuring Mao. ... A must-have book for everybody interested in contemporary China, Mao, and his legacy now and in the future". -- China Information

Shades of Mao

Shades of Mao
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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 1563246783
ISBN-13 : 9781563246784
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shades of Mao by : Geremie Barmé

Download or read book Shades of Mao written by Geremie Barmé and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates Barme (pacific and Asian history, Australian National U.) has collected essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. His criterion for inclusion in the volume is not limited to the prosaic or scholarly. Mao on Mao appears along with a short essay from a dissident after his 14 year imprisonment by the government. Also included is information on searches for Mao look alikes in the 1970s, extracts from the Central Committee on Mao, and the origin of Mao portraiture in China. The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mao and Me

Mao and Me
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 77
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ISBN-10 : 1592700799
ISBN-13 : 9781592700790
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mao and Me by : Jiang Hong Chen

Download or read book Mao and Me written by Jiang Hong Chen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chens picture book memoir of growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Mao Cult

Mao Cult
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781139498111
ISBN-13 : 1139498118
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mao Cult by : Daniel Leese

Download or read book Mao Cult written by Daniel Leese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nationalists' elevation of Chiang Kai-shek. However, they did not anticipate that Mao would use this symbolic power to mobilize Chinese youth to rebel against party bureaucracy itself. The result was anarchy and when the army was called in it relied on mandatory rituals of worship such as daily reading of the Little Red Book to restore order. Such fascinating detail sheds light not only on the personality cult of Mao, but also on hero-worship in other traditions.

The Private Life of Chairman Mao

The Private Life of Chairman Mao
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 734
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ISBN-10 : 9780307791399
ISBN-13 : 0307791394
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Private Life of Chairman Mao by : Li Zhi-Sui

Download or read book The Private Life of Chairman Mao written by Li Zhi-Sui and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly intimate—contact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center of Mao's decadent imperial court. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev and reveals the actual catalyst of Nixon's historic visit. Here are also surprising details of Mao's personal depravity (we see him dependent on barbiturates and refusing to wash, dress, or brush his teeth) and the sexual politics of his court. To millions of Chinese, Mao was more god than man, but for Dr. Li, he was all too human. Dr. Li's intimate account of this lecherous, paranoid tyrant, callously indifferent to the suffering of his people, will forever alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Praise for The Private Life of Chairman Mao “From now one no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao's place in history without reference to this revealing account.”—Professor Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dr. Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating. Our view of Mao will never be the same again.”—Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time “An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Mao. [Dr. Li] portrays [Mao's imperial court] as a place of boundless decadence, licentiousness, selfishness, relentless toadying and cutthroat political intrigue.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “One of the most provocative books on Mao to appear since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China.”—Paul G. Pickowicz, The Wall Street Journal

Between Mao and McCarthy

Between Mao and McCarthy
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780226193731
ISBN-13 : 022619373X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Between Mao and McCarthy by : Charlotte Brooks

Download or read book Between Mao and McCarthy written by Charlotte Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York. Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. On both coasts, Chinese Americans sought to gain political power and defend their civil rights, yet only the San Franciscans succeeded. Forging multiracial coalitions and encouraging voting and moderate activism, they avoided the deep divisions and factionalism that consumed their counterparts in New York. Drawing on extensive research in both Chinese- and English-language sources, Charlotte Brooks uncovers the complex, diverse, and surprisingly vibrant politics of an ethnic group trying to find its voice and flex its political muscle in Cold War America.

In the Red

In the Red
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 554
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ISBN-10 : 9780231106153
ISBN-13 : 0231106157
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In the Red by : Geremie Barmé

Download or read book In the Red written by Geremie Barmé and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading observer of Chinese literature, society, and politics lifts the veil on the culture wars that have raged between officials and dissidents in the period before and after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.