Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture.

1972 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Jerome Ch'en ◽  
Richard H. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

The Study of Chinese Political Culture

1966 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Scholarly Publication ◽  
Communist China ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

These seven recent works typify a cross section of scholarly publication on the Chinese People's Republic, its history, present operation, and prospects. Taken together, they provide the basis for some remarks on the study of Chinese “political culture.” Rather than attempt a full review of the individual works, this brief article will examine some of their assumptions and indirectly comment on the literature they represent. Each book reflects a prodigious scholarly effort and has received in various other journals a complete appraisal of its intellectual value. In general it may be fairly said that these volumes do not constitute significant breakthroughs of knowledge. They do, however, bring together and analyze important bodies of data on Communist China.

The People

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Pines
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of Chinese political culture, such as monarchism and intellectual elitism. Moreover, the chapter looks at why the rebellions serve to support rather than disrupt the empire's longevity. These issues are then related to the broader issue of the political role of the “people,” here referring primarily, although not exclusively, to the lower strata, in the Chinese imperial enterprise. In answering these questions, this chapter focuses on ideological and social factors that both legitimated rebellions and also enabled their accommodation within the imperial enterprise.

Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture

1995 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Robert Ferrell ◽  
Peter Zarrow
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

China's Past in the Study of China Today—Some Comments on the Recent Work of Richard A. Solomon

1972 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Mote
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Communist Revolution ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
China Today ◽  
Chinese Political Culture ◽  
Cultural Features

Richard Solomon's book Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture is a pioneering effort to interpret the Chinese Communist revolution and its revolutionary social policy by using the emergent methodology of “political culture.” Although it poses several valuable questions, the author's command of the traditional Chinese civilization is inadequate to inform his judgment. Information about literacy in traditional China is mis-used, and the extent and content of education is misunderstood. Various cultural features, e.g. the Chinese counterpart to the West's Oedipal myth, are introduced but their import is erroneously explained. Family values are mistakenly interpreted in relation to the Confucian Great Tradition. The inadequacy of Solomon's handling of such cultural information casts doubts on the validity of the entire book.

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