Revolutionary discourse in Mao's republic

CONTENTS
	PREFACE
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
	TOWARD A DISCOURSE THEORY OF POLITICS
	Passionate Boundaries
	The Narrative Reconstruction of Reality
	Agency
	The Empirical Context
	Political Contexts
	The Yan’an Legacy
	I FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES
	FOUR STRUGGLES
	Military Power versus Legitimacy: The Entrapment of Zhang Guotao
	Liu Zhidan and the Issue of Centralized Power
	The Struggle for Ideological Control: Mao versus Wang Ming
	Wang Shiwei and the End of an Alternative Intellectual Discourse
	The Depersonalization of Power
	THREE STORIES
	Storytelling
	Contextualizing the Stories
	The Preconditions of Storytelling
	Mao and the Storytelling Tradition
	The Republic of Clandestinity
	Mao as Storyteller
	The Long, the Middle, and the Short of It
	Fictive Truths and Their Mirror Images
	Centering Mao
	ONE LINE
	Metonymies of the Long Story
	Ambiguities, Contradictions, and Lines
	Mao’s Inversion
	Tutelary Party/Utopic Community
	Missionary Intellectuals
	The Cosmocratic Frame
	IIYAN’AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE
	THE SURVIVING YAN’ANITES
	To Each One’s Own Yan’an
	Students and Intellectuals
	Soldiers and Commanders
	Musicians and Artists
	Yan’an Recollected
	THE TERRAIN ON THE GROUND
	Yan’an at the Margin
	Establishing the Shan-Gan-Ning Border Region
	The Social Structure of the Greater Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region
	Territorial Administration and Local Politics
	Mao’s New Democracy
	The Three-Thirds System of Government
	CCP-GMD Relations and the 1941 Crisis
	YAN’AN AS A REVOLUTIONARY SIMULACRUM
	The Evolution in the Revolution
	Education as a Culture of Socialism
	Cultural Transmission
	Some ImpEcations of Revolutionary Platonism
	IllTHE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL
	EXEGETICAL BONDING AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONFESSION
	The Rationale
	Preparation of the Texts
	Organizing the Cadres
	Rectification Launched
	The Discourse Accepted
	The Inquisition
	Reenactment as Redemption
	FOUCAULT’S PARADOXAND THE POLITICS OFCONTENDING DISCOURSES
	The Morphology of a Discourse Community
	Revolutionary Platonism and the Political Concrete
	From the Cave to the Square
	From a Logocentric to an Econocentric Model: The Decline of Symbolic Capital
	Guanxi Socialism
	A Journey without Maps
	APPENDIX: CADRE SCHOOLS IN THE SHAAN-GAN-NING BORDER REGION, 1935-1945
	NOTES
	INDEX