China and the new Maoists
By: Kerry Brown and Simone van Nieuwenhuizen
Contributors: Nieuwenhuizen, Simone van, author
Series: Asian arguments; Asian arguments
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781783607594
Subjects: Politics and government; Communism; History
Description: An absorbing account of the continued influence of Chairman Mao on contemporary China, and of efforts by the New Maoists to claim his legacy.
Table of contents: title: Cover ; Asian Arguments; About the Authors ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction; title: Terminology: Maoism and Leftism The Religion of Maoism ; The Question of Charisma ; 1. The Tale of the Victim, Zhang Zhixin ; Sources ; 2. The Chairman's Life After Death ; Mao 2.0; title: Mao and the Fifth Generation Leaders Having Your Cake and Eating It: Mao and Contradiction ; Twilight of Harmonious China; title: Mao Overboard: Maoism in the Outside World 3. Defender of the Faith: Deng Liqun and Leftism ; The Life of a Leftist ; What Influences Post-Mao Leftists?; title: The Fight for the Right Path: 1980s Reforms and the Rise of Chinese Capitalism Existential Crisis: 1989, the Fall of the Soviet Union and the 'End of History' ; Deng contra Deng: The Final Showdown ; Sources ; 4. Maoism in Motion: The Red Campaign of Bo Xilai in Chongqing