Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner

by Lynch, Catherine; Marks, Robert B.; Pickowicz, Paul G.; Chen, Tina Mai; Cumings, Bruce,; Feigon, Lee; Kim, Sooyoung; Lutze, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780739165720
• ISBN10: 0739165720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes its way forward through contested visions of the future. Is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a resource for a more fully human and radically democratic China, with implications for all of us? Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, the essays collected here look at China's past and present with a view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and assessing the limitations of these visions and their implementations.

Author Biography

Catherine Lynch is Emeritus in the History Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Robert B. Marks is Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College. Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies and holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical Context	p. 1
Individualism and Nationalism in the Thought of Chen Duxiu, 1904-1918	p. 11
Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming	p. 29
Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950s	p. 55
Mao and Tibet	p. 79
Chinese Communists and the Environment	p. 105
Post-Socialist Capitalism in Rural China	p. 133
Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural China	p. 161
The ôRise of Chinaö?	p. 185
Index	p. 209
About the Contributors	p. 221
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