1st Edition

Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign Simulation and its Social Implications

By Xiao Mei Copyright 2018
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Between 2009 and 2012, the city of Chongqing came into the national, and even international spotlight, as it became the geographical centre of the ‘Singing Red, Smashing Black’ campaign, and later the political storm that swept China. Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign drew an incredible amount of interest at the time, but speculation and prejudice has since blurred the public understanding of the... Read more

1. Chongqing Under the Spotlight: The ‘Chongqing Model’ and its Controversies

2. Putting China’s Mass Campaigns into Perspective

3. Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign as Simulation 

4. Who were the Participants in Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign?

5. Experiencing the Campaign: Patterns of Practices by the local people in Chongqing

6. How the Official Programme Interacted with the Practices of the Local Participants: Exchange

7. How the Official Programme Interacted with the Practices of the Local Participants: Framing

8. Conclusion

Biography

MEI Xiao is a researcher currently based in Beijing. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.