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  title info:
    title: Politics of control
    sub title: creating Red culture in the early People's Republic of China
  name:
    name part: Hung, Chang-tai
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: hiu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control. Using newly available archival material, internal circulars, memoirs, interviews and site visits, the book explores the fascinating world of mass media, book publishing, education, religion, parks, museums and architecture during the formative years of the republic. When the Communists assumed power in 1949, they projected themselves as not only military victors but also as peace restorers and cultural protectors. Believing that they needed to manage culture in every arena, they created an interlocking system of agencies and regulations that was supervised at the center. Documents show, however, that there was internal conflict. Censors, introduced early at the Beijing Daily, operated under the "twofold leadership" of municipal-level editors but with final authorization from the Communist Party Propaganda Department. Politics of Control looks behind the office doors, where the ideological split between Party chairman Mao Zedong and head of state Liu Shaoqi made pragmatic editors bite their pencil erasers and hope for the best. In addition to designing a plan to nurture a new generation of Chinese revolutionaries, the party-state developed community centers that served as cultural propaganda stations. New urban parks were used to stage political rallies for major campaigns and public trials where threatening sects could be attacked. A fascinating part of the story is the way in which architecture and museums were used to promote ethnic unity under the Chinese party-state umbrella. The book's interdisciplinary, cultural institutional analysis is unique. Besides revealing how interlocking systems resulted in a pervasive method of control, it also examines how this system was influenced by the Soviet Union and how, nevertheless, Chinese nationalism always took precedenc…
  table of contents: Policing Books in Beijing -- Censorship and Purges at a Municipal Newspaper: -- The Case of the Beijing Daily -- The Attack on a Popular Religious Sect: -- Yiguandao and Mass Mobilization -- Building Cultural Centers at the Grassroots -- Turning Chinese Children Red: Redesigning Kindergarten Education -- A Political Park: Public Space as Propaganda Theater -- Architecture and Ethnicity: Unity under One Roof?
  note: Chang-tai Hung.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1949-1976
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Cultural policy
  classification: DS777.75 .H84 2021
  classification: 306.20951/09045
  identifier: 9780824884574
  identifier: 0824884574
  identifier: 9780824886905
  identifier: 9780824886912
  identifier: 9780824886929
  identifier: 2020043233
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200919
    record change date: 20210728154726.0
    record identifier: in00004420849