China's great proletarian Cultural Revolution : master narratives and post-Mao counternarratives / edited by Woei Lien Chong.

Other author Chong, Woei Lien.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002.
Descriptionxix, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
China--History. --Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China--Politics and government. --1976-2002.
China--Intellectual life. --1976-.
China--History. --Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China--Intellectual life. --1949-.

Portion of title Master narratives and post-Mao counternarratives
SeriesWorld social change
World social change. ^A465443
Contents Rethinking China's Cultural Revolution amid reform / Lowell Dittmer -- China's inner demons : the political impact of the demonological paradigm / Barend J. ter Haar -- From harmony to struggle, from perpetual peace to Cultural Revolution : changing futures in Mao Zedong's thought / Nick Knight -- Red and expert : China's "foreign friends" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 / Anne-Marie Brady -- Deification of Mao : religious imagery and practices during the Cultural Revolution and beyond / Stefan R. Landsberger -- Ideal socialist hero : literary conventions in Cultural Revolution novels / Lan Yang -- Philosophy in an age of crisis. Three thinkers in post-Cultural Revolution China : Li Zehou, Liu Xiaobo, and Liu Xiaofeng.
Contents Resisting current stereotypes : private narrative strategies in the autobiographies of former rusticated women / Nora Sausmikat -- China's Generation X : rusticated Red Guards in controversial contemporary plays / Natascha Vittinghoff -- Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai's fiction / Monika Gaenssbauer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-384) and index.
LCCN 2002017608
ISBN0742518736 (alk. paper)
ISBN0742518744 (pbk. : alk. paper)