China's dream : the culture of Chinese communism and the secret sources of its power /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA :
Polity Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Chronology; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; Notes; 1: Redemption from the Dark Past; Reappraisals of History: The Two Iterations; Notes; 2: Winning the Historic Mission; Telling the China Story: The Party as Hero; The Return of the Storytellers; Using the Past to Serve the Present; Notes; 3: Being a Good Chinese Communist; The Fall of the Party Cadre: The Anti-Corruption Struggle; Moral Reboot: Going for Loyalty; Notes; 4: Back to Basics; Remaking People: Maoist Morality and the Great Cultural Revolution; 1978: The Moral Impact of the Reform Era; Liu Xiaobo and the Moral Critique of Contemporary China; The Fat Years: China Out of Control; The Party Rescues Itself; Welcome to Deep China; Deep China and the Deep Past; Written on Water: The Sustainability of the CPC's Moral Fightback; Notes; 5: The Drama of Ideas; The Ideological Narrative: The Origins of Plenitude in Contradiction; Putting Ideas into Practice: Ideology, Action, and the Maoist System; The Narratives of Chinese Communist Ideology; Notes; 6: The Ideological Fightback under Xi; The Great Warning: The Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Resurrection of Party Building, Culture, and Belief: The Years of Xi Jinping; Xi's Keywords; Ideology: Final Words; Notes; 7: The Aesthetics of the Party; The Maoist Attitude to Art; Mao's Vision of Art in Practice; Maoist Aesthetics in Action: The Cultural Revolution as Theatre; The Party's Aesthetics after 1978; The 2008 Olympic Carnival; Xi Jinping and the New Yan'an; Xi's Politics: The Party as a Vessel for Emotions; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index; End User License Agreement.