Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution - Tapa dura

Leese, Daniel

 
9780521193672: Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution
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ISBN 10: 0521193672 ISBN 13: 9780521193672
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Sinopsis

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.

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Daniel Leese is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He is the editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of China (2008).

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521193672
ISBN 13 
9780521193672
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Número de páginas
324
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