The Maoist regime has conventionally been understood as a totalitarian apparatus hostile to
the individual. Yet the mass dictatorship also saw the proliferation of guidebooks on how to …

Laurence Coderre's recently published book explores the concept and production of
“newborn socialist things”(shehuizhuyi xinsheng shiwu) that she has described elsewhere …

This thorough examination of Mao's speeches and writings and how they reshaped a nation
“is critical to an understanding of modern China”(Choice). Mao Zedong fundamentally …

The Maoist state's dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as
the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the …

Lu Ling (1921-94) was one of modern China's most intensely psychological writers,
foregrounding in his many novels and short stories the narrative representation of …

Abstract For Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, the socialist transformation
after 1949 was not only a political and administrative construction, but also a process of …

In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern
Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays …

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 Maoist creed depended upon a large core of devout, dedicated believers who sought in
their personal lives to abide by the revolution's teachings. Based on close reading and …

Why does Mao's embalmed corpse continue to arouse powerful religious feelings among
contemporary Chinese writers after the end of his rule, from fantasies of resurrection to …