Redefining Propaganda in Modern China: The Mao Era and Its Legacies

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Table of contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Redefining propaganda
	Propaganda in modern China
	Legacies of Maoism
	Historical perspectives
	Icons and imagery
	Reception and affect
	Transitions
	Legacies
	Notes
Part I Historical perspectives
	1 Propaganda: A historical perspective
		The Mao era and the Chinese experience of propaganda
		Conclusion
		Notes
	2 China’s directed public sphere: Historical perspectives on Mao’s propaganda state
		Introduction
		A question of perspective
		Keywords of the pedagogical state
		Doctrinal culture of Chinese statecraft
		China’s changing public spheres
			Print capitalism and Qing legacies
			The birth of China’s propaganda state
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part II Icons and imagery
	3 Liu Hulan – ‘A great life, a glorious death’: Martyrdom across the media
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
	4 The subtle image of the ‘compatriot’ .. in Chinese propaganda posters of the Mao era
		Images of Hong Kong and Taiwanese compatriots in the propaganda posters of the Mao era
			Embedding the ‘old’ society in the present: The images of Taiwanese compatriots in the 1950s
			Creating helpless victims and the poor relatives among the Chinese people
				The martyr who could not show his face to the audience36
				The distant relatives from a different society: Taiwanese compatriot in posters in the 1970s
			Illustrating distance between China’s centre and her periphery
		Weaving the HK/TW compatriots into the big family of China in a tianxia system
		Conclusion: The image of the familiar ‘others’ – the compatriots of Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Notes
	5 Anatomy of an emulation campaign: ‘Study from Comrade Wang Guofu’
		Depicting a model peasant cadre
		Building the mythology of Wang Guofu: Beijing ribao (Beijing Daily) 20 January to 5 February 1970
		The return of Wang Guofu (1972–77)
		Frozen in time: A socialist model peasant
		Notes
Part III Reception and affect
	6 Developing patriotic anti-Americanism: Chinese propaganda and the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign, 1949–53
		Imagining an American enemy
		Cultivating a patriotic and productive anti-American citizenry
		Signing devotion to the Anti-American cause
		Popular reactions to and enduring legacies of the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign
		Notes
	7 One more time, with feeling: Revolutionary repetition and the Cultural Revolution Red Guard rally documentaries, 1966–67
		Mao and zombies
		‘A revenge of singularity on representation’
		Where have all the film editors gone?
		Multiplicity
		Deluge
		Notes
Part IV Transitions
	8 Breaking with the past: Party propaganda and state crimes
		The return of the propaganda state
		Community through accusation
		The asymmetry of representation
		The recognition of official wrongdoing
		History told through a few million reversed cases
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
	9 From text(s) to image(s): Maoist-era texts and their influences on six oil paintings (1957–79)
		Art in context: Three elite visual artists
		Quan Shanshi on two Mao text-inspired paintings
		Wen Lipeng and two text-inspired martyr paintings
		Zhan Jianjun and two paintings on heroism
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
Part V Legacies
	10 Propaganda and security from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping: Struggling to defend China’s socialist system
		Combating ‘peaceful evolution’: Propaganda, culture and education as weapons against revisionism, 1953–64
		Struggling to the end with ‘bourgeois liberalization’: Thought work, 1979–89
		Securing culture against globalization: Continuities in national policy from Jiang to Hu
		Conclusion: Putting cultural securitization in context
		Notes
	11 Whose ‘Chinese Dream’ is it anyway? Temporalities of ‘ethnicity’ in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang
		Introduction: The temporalities of the ‘Chinese Dream’
		The meaning of ethnicity
		Propaganda and pastoral power: Theoretical approach and methodologies
		Stories of the past: The provincial museums
			The Provincial Museum, Urumqi
			The Provincial Museum, Hohhot
		Framing the present: Urban spaces
			Urumqi
			Hohhot
		Imagining the future: Whose ‘Chinese Dream’ is it anyway?
		Notes
	12 China as ‘Third Pole Culture’: Between theorizing and thought work
		Introduction: Anatomy of the third
		The ‘Third Pole’
		Thought work and huayu quan in propaganda
		The Third Space and thirding
		Towards a conclusion: Cultural diversity and difference in China’s Third Space discourse
		Notes
Selected bibliography
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
Index