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  title info:
    title: China's new Red Guards
    sub title: the return of radicalism and the rebirth of Mao Zedong
  name:
    name part: Blanchette, Jude
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 206 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: As Jude Blanchette details in China's New Red Guards, two worrying trends in contemporary China point to Maoism's revival. First, an increasingly popular hard-edged form of nationalism that is reflexively anti-Western has taken root. The second is an unapologetic embrace of extreme authoritarianism that draws inspiration from the Maoist era. China's assertive stance in the South China Sea and anti-Japanese rhetoric represents the former, and the massive crackdown on liberal thought since Xi Jinping assumed the presidency represents the latter. The result is plain to see, a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. Blanchette goes further than this, though, arguing that what we're seeing is a full-fledged Maoist revival. He centers his story around a cast of nationalist intellectuals and activists who have helped unleash a wave of populist enthusiasm and nostalgia for the Great Helmsman's policies. That, combined with Xi's quick implementation of a range of authoritarian policies, suggests that the Maoist revival is neither epiphenomenal nor a passing fad. The ramifications, Blanchette suggests, are clear, those in the West who have been predicting waves of democratization and liberalization are living in a dream world, blithely unaware of either the Communist Party's commitment to authoritarianism or the degree of its residual veneration for the CCP's founding leaders. In sum, China's New Red Guards not only will reshape our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.
  table of contents: Collision -- Storm -- China's not happy -- Bombard the headquarters -- Forgetting history is betrayal -- Red nation.
  note: Jude Blanchette.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mao, Zedong
      name part: 1893-1976
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2002-
  subject:
    topic: Authoritarianism
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / General
  classification: DS779.46 .B625 2019
  classification: 951.06/12
  identifier: 9780190605841
  identifier: 0190605847
  identifier: 2019002681
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190214
    record change date: 20191021074842.0
    record identifier: in00004073953