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Redefining Propaganda in Modern China: The Mao Era and its Legacies book cover

1st Edition

Redefining Propaganda in Modern China The Mao Era and its Legacies

Edited By James Farley, Matthew D. Johnson Copyright 2021
336 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Usage of the political keyword 'propaganda' by the Chinese Communist Party has changed and expanded over time. These changes have been masked by strong continuities spanning periods in the history of the People's Republic of China from the Mao Zedong era (1949–76) to the new era of Xi Jinping (2012–present). Redefining Propaganda in Modern China builds on the work of earlier scholars to... Read more

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

James Farley and Matthew Johnson

Part I: Historical Perspectives

1. Propaganda: A Historical Perspective

David Welch

2. China’s Directed Public Sphere: Historical Perspectives on Mao’s Propaganda State

Timothy Cheek

Part II: Icons and Imagery

3. Liu Hulan – ‘A Great Life, a Glorious Death’: Martyrdom Across the Media

James Farley

4. Creating the Subtle Image of the ‘Compatriot’ 同胞 – The People of Taiwan and Hong Kong in Chinese Propaganda Posters of the Mao Era (1949-1976)

Jia Zhen 賈甄

5. Anatomy of an Emulation Campaign: "Study from Comrade Wang Guofu"

Richard King

Part III: Reception and Affect

6. Developing Patriotic Anti-Americanism: Chinese Propaganda and the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign, 1949-53

Andrew Kuech

7. One More Time, with Feeling: Revolutionary Repetition and the Cultural Revolution Red Guard Rally Documentaries, 1966-67

Eldon Pei

Part IV: Transitions

8. Breaking with the Past: Party Propaganda and State Crimes

Puck Engman

9. From Text(s) to Image(s): Maoist-Era Texts and their Influences on Six Oil Paintings (1957-79)

Christopher A. Reed

Part V: Legacies

10. Propaganda and Security from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping: Struggling to Defend China’s Socialist System

Matthew Johnson

11. Whose China Dream is it Anyway: Temporalities of ‘Ethnicity’ in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang

Melissa Shani Brown and David O’Brien

12. China as ‘Third Pole’ Culture: Between Theorizing and Thought Work

Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang

Selected Bibliography

Biography

James Farley completed his PhD at the University of Kent in 2016. In 2016 he organized an international conference on 'China's Propaganda System: Legacies and Enduring Themes' and his monograph, Model Workers in China, 1949–1965 (2019), was published by Routledge. He is currently a post doctoral researcher at Universität Hamburg, Germany.


Matthew D. Johnson is an independent research consultant and analyst. He pre­viously held academic appointments at the University of Oxford and Grinnell College, and as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Taylor's University, Malaysia. His books include Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism (joint editor, 2015). He is also a director of the PRC History Group (prchistory.org).

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